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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>,
	Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>,
	John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Groups of commits
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:46:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i2k32541b131004280546j5fc4e160oa1618fe14d83a291@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2t81b0412b1004280105p46962bdeq163bc4fb92cb0fdb@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:25, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to add to the "merge in topic branches" idea - if you find that
>> the commits are trivially fast-forwardable, you can still add a short
>> note/cover letter with
>>
>>  git merge --no-ff -m "Added in foo's work" <branch/commit>
>
> Except that is not a "short note" anymore, but a full-fledged merge
> commit. You forced it with "--no-ff".

I think it's safe to say that a commit *is* just a "short note" about
a tree, who made it, the reason (message), and who its parents were.

Have fun,

Avery

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  1:59 Groups of commits John Tapsell
2010-04-28  2:14 ` Jeff King
2010-04-28  2:15 ` Michael Poole
2010-04-28  5:25   ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-04-28  8:05     ` Alex Riesen
2010-04-28 12:46       ` Avery Pennarun [this message]

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