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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:21:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eluasq$v7q$3@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87slfh4xkm.wl%cworth@cworth.org

Carl Worth wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:25:30 -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:

>>  * gitweb made it appear as though a whole lot of Carl's recent
>>    work was somehow undone in the merge.
> 
> That looks like a simple gitweb bug. None of the other tools, (gitk,
> git log -p), consider a trivial merge commit like this as having
> anything interesting in it worth displaying.

It's not a bug, it is rather lack of feature (or misfeature).

Gitweb deals with multiparent commits (merge commits) that it uses
_first_ parent. No special casing merges (like git-show doesn't
show whatchanged/patch for merges), no support for -c/--cc diff
(combined diff format).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-15  2:06 Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15  3:17 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-15  3:25   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15  4:01     ` Carl Worth
2006-12-15  7:53       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15 14:21       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-12-15 15:01         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15 15:57           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-15 16:03             ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15 16:53               ` [PATCH] gitweb: Do not show difftree for merges in "commit" view Jakub Narebski
2006-12-15 21:03   ` Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo Junio C Hamano

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