git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bring description of git diff --cc up to date
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:09:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63qxn8w2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080722111947.BIW29914@m4500-01.uchicago.edu> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:19:47 -0500 (CDT)")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> writes:

> Just to make sure I understand, here is what I think --cc does:
>
>   - In a two-parent merge, it is exactly as Linus has been
>     ...
>   - In a many-parent merge, the criterion is more stringent.
>     ...
>
> Is that correct?

The logic in the code does not have separate criteria for two-parent and
Octopus cases.  Actually Linus talks about "when you have two versions to
choose from, and if the result matches one of them, then it is not
interesting".  In a two-parent merge, you cannot have three or more
possible versions to choose from by definition, can you?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22 16:19 [PATCH] bring description of git diff --cc up to date Jonathan Nieder
2008-07-22 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-22 21:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 23:27     ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-07-23  0:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23  3:55         ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-07-23 23:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24  0:35             ` Jonathan Nieder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-21 18:27 Jonathan Nieder
2008-07-22  6:41 ` Junio C Hamano

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7v63qxn8w2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org \
    --to=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=david@dgreaves.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=jrnieder@uchicago.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).