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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Sverre Hvammen Johansen" <hvammen@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Introduce fast forward option only
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:59:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7ielpxq5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lk32p5z9.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:46:41 -0700 (PDT)")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> "Sverre Hvammen Johansen" <hvammen@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This feature is needed for git integration with accurev.
>> See the documentation for an explanation of this feature.
>
> I'd rather have description of the change in the commit message
> itself.  You can add "See the documentation for details", but the
> basic description, like:
>
>    This commit introcudes fast forward option 'only'.  With --ff=only
>    merge succeeds only if it resolves to fast-forward merge.
>  
> It would be nice to have described either in commit message, or in the
> documentation, _why_ it is needed for integration with AccuRev,
> i.e. what features of AccuRev or of integration requires this.

Including this message, I agree with what Jakub said as comments to this
series.  Readers of "git log" 6 months from now should not have to suffer
"See Documentation", and reviewers of this series right now should not
have to guess why it is a good idea and is worth reviewing by actually
reading the patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-25 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24  5:53 [PATCH 5/5] Introduce fast forward option only Sverre Hvammen Johansen
2008-04-25 10:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-25 18:59   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-04-25 21:00     ` Sverre Hvammen Johansen

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