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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git merge vs git commit
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:34:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhc8p6x59.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909165236.GA8850@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (Russell King's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 17:52:37 +0100")

Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

> If there aren't any conflicts, you get a nice clean merge, resulting in:
> ...
> However, if you have a conflict that needs resolving, you fix it up as
> ...
> instead - an additional reference from commit 'K' back to commit 'A'
> which isn't present in the clean merge case.
>
> Is this intentional, or is it a bug?

I think some changes went into 1.6.0 around this area to (r)eject parents
that are redundant.  What happens when you use more recent git with the
same example?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 16:52 git merge vs git commit Russell King
2008-09-09 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-09 18:54   ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-09 19:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-09 21:32 ` Matthieu Moy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-10 17:42 Ulrik Sverdrup

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