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From: david@lang.hm
Subject: Re: merge time
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:34:55 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> I agree. But I think except for being 'fake' there shouldn't be any
>> problems with the extra commit.
>
> Problems, no. But it will look ugly when browsing history. :)

yes, but this entire thread was an attempt to avoid browsing the history 
and instead figure out the relationships between commits by dates. so the 
people wanting this don't care how ugly it makes the history (but since 
they want to do this in other people's repositories this won't work for 
them either)

David Lang