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Tue, 3 Nov 2026 16:42:02 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Julia Evans" Cc: "Julia Evans" , git@vger.kernel.org, "D. Ben Knoble" Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: git-diff: rewrite EXAMPLES section In-Reply-To: (Julia Evans's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:45:22 -0500") References: <9a6ae876-78d5-4513-8c75-c4c071c3db6a@app.fastmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:42:00 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Julia Evans" writes: > It's very hard to understand from the Git history the reasons for > adding examples that were added 20 years ago, for example > in 803f498c03b where these were added, especially since the commit > messages from 20 years ago tend to be a lot more terse. Sure. But that is why you send patches here to invite people to comment on. > I do hear that AUTO_MERGE was added more recently.