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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:46:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskum8cw9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707054105.GB9737@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:41:05 +0200")

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:43:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> We would make it _appear_ rebase and merge are interchangeable even more.
>> But the thing is, I am not convinced if promoting that appearance is
>> necessarily a good thing.
>> 
>> You now do not have to say something like:
>> 
>> 	After a 'git pull' you can view 'git diff ORIG_HEAD..' to check
>> 	what are new, but 'git pull --rebase' is different and you would
>> 	say 'git diff branch@{1}.." instead.
>> 
>> and you can tell the users that ORIG_HEAD can be used in both cases.
>
> And in both cases, you could use HEAD@{1} instead of ORIG_HEAD.

No you cannot.  Read what I wrote again.  I never said HEAD@{1} ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-06 21:22 [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-07  4:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  5:16   ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-07  5:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  6:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07  6:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 11:18       ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-07 11:42         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-07 15:03           ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-08  4:26             ` Jeff King
2008-07-08 14:32               ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-07 14:36         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-07 18:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 21:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 22:14         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-07 22:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 22:58             ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-08  3:24         ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-08  4:12           ` [PATCH] Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebase Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-08 19:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-08 19:28               ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-07-08  3:28         ` [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch Jay Soffian
2008-07-07  5:41   ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-07  5:46     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-07  5:48     ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-07  6:14 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-07-07  7:16   ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 14:36     ` Brian Gernhardt

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