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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Cory Sharp <cory.sharp@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] merge squash unexpected conflicts
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:42:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7veiusz45w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb9d69200905132057u60adc2f8vb9ba9a35791f72ac@mail.gmail.com> (Cory Sharp's message of "Wed\, 13 May 2009 20\:57\:43 -0700")

Cory Sharp <cory.sharp@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ..
>> Of course.  That's the whole point of recording a merge as a merge.
>>
>
> $ git help merge
>
>   --squash
>            Produce the working tree and index state as if a real merge
> happened. ... This allows you to create a
>            single commit on top of the current branch whose effect is
> the same as merging another branch.

What's your point?

WIth --squash, the tree and the index state becomes the same as if a real
merge happened.  But the merge history is discarded with --squash.  It is
a simulation of a merge in CVS and SVN (before they added "merge tracking").

If you want support for repeated merges by merge tracking, you do not want
todiscard the merge history by using --squash.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bb9d69200905131706m61b0dda1xc347ca2e719ec142@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-14  2:42 ` [Q] merge squash unexpected conflicts Cory Sharp
2009-05-14  3:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14  3:57     ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14  4:42       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-05-14  6:34         ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14  6:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14  6:54             ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14  7:01               ` Michael Radziej
2009-05-14 18:25                 ` Cory Sharp
2009-05-14 12:17       ` Michael J Gruber
2009-05-14 14:47         ` Cory Sharp

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