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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch]
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:39:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eiqcqn$c0$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0611070729370.3667@g5.osdl.org

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So doing a merge doesn't really "centralize" anything. It just joins the 
> two development threads together in that particular line. If "master" 
> merges the work in "maint", master doesn't really get any more 
> centralized, it just gets the work that "maint" did since last time. And 
> if there was no other work done at all, then the two branches end up 100% 
> identical - there was no "merge" of the work.

By the way, merges happen in _two_ directions. 'Master' merges from 'next'
when 'next' is in sufficiently stable state; 'next' merges from 'master' to
get changes which were considered stable enough to be put into
'master' (and 'master' merges in from 'maint', too).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-07 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06  3:41 how to show log for only one branch Liu Yubao
2006-11-06  6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-06 10:41   ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-06 18:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-07  2:21       ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07  8:21         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-06 13:00   ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch] Liu Yubao
2006-11-06 13:39     ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit Rocco Rutte
2006-11-07  3:42       ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-06 13:43     ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch] Andreas Ericsson
2006-11-07  3:26       ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07  9:30         ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-07 12:05           ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07 12:17             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-06 15:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-06 16:03       ` Martin Langhoff
2006-11-06 17:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-07  7:59         ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07 17:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-07 18:23           ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit Junio C Hamano
2006-11-07 11:46         ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit [Was: Re: how to show log for only one branch] Eran Tromer
2006-11-07  7:27       ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07  9:46         ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-07 12:08           ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07 13:15             ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-07 16:05         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-07 16:39           ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-11-07 21:37           ` If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit Junio C Hamano
2006-11-07 22:02             ` Planned new release of git [was: Re: If merging that is really fast forwarding creates new commit] Jakub Narebski
2006-11-07 23:06               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-07 23:36                 ` Planned new release of git Junio C Hamano
2006-11-07 23:19               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-06 15:25 ` how to show log for only one branch Jakub Narebski
2006-11-07  3:47   ` Liu Yubao
2006-11-07  8:08     ` Jakub Narebski

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