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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A note on merging conflicts..
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:52:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607011146530.12404@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e86ega$gnc$1@sea.gmane.org>



On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> Caret is used twice, with different meaning. As prefix operator "^" means 
> "exclude lineage of commit" (while commit without "^" in front means:
> "include lineage of commit and commit itself"). BTW. why we don't use '!'
> for that?

Using '!' is really nasty with most shells. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

It would be more sensible to use ~ (mathematical negation), but that also 
has magic meaning for shell at the beginning of a word..

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-01 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-01  2:44 A note on merging conflicts Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01  3:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01  3:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01  3:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 15:09     ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-01 15:23       ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-01 16:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 18:13         ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-01 18:01       ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-07-01 18:20         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 22:24           ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-01 22:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 23:25               ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-01 23:45                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-02 11:31                   ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-02 21:42                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-07-02  0:08                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 18:22         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-01 18:52           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-07-01 18:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01 19:29         ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-01 19:56           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01 23:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-01 20:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 20:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01 20:14               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01 23:29                 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add get_merge_bases_clean() Rene Scharfe
2006-07-01 23:43                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-01 23:29                 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add '...' operator for revisions Rene Scharfe
2006-07-01 23:29                 ` [PATCH 3/3] Make clear_commit_marks() clean harder Rene Scharfe
2006-07-03  9:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-03 13:56                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-03 17:05                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-03 21:08                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-03 19:47                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-03 21:12                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-03 22:55                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-04  7:53                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-04  8:20                               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-02  9:49                 ` [PATCH 4/3] Fold get_merge_bases_clean() into get_merge_bases() Rene Scharfe
2006-07-02  9:56                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-02 16:43                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-02 17:40                     ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-02 18:28                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-02 20:59                         ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-02 21:15                           ` Rene Scharfe
2006-07-02 21:17                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-02 20:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-07  8:26 ` A note on merging conflicts Junio C Hamano

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