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Re: [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2010, 05:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20100826054659.GC9708@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100826053439.GB9407@kytes>
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> No,
> format-patch doesn't support merge commits at all.
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> Jonathan Nieder writes:
>
>> I see value in avoiding confusion.  Maybe one solution would be to make
>> format-patch use --no-merges by default.
>
> Good idea. I'll write a patch. Do we also want people to be able to
> turn off `--no-merges`?
I don't see a need for it.

However, if you can think of good names for --undo-no-merges and --undo-merges options to "git log", that might be a nice independent change for the revision option parser.

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Message 7 of 11 in “log/ format-patch improvements”
  1. 0/2 log/ format-patch improvementsRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 21, 2010
  2. 1/2 git-format-patch: Print a diagnostic message when ignoring commitsRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 21, 2010
  3. 2/2 log: Improve description of '-<n>' option in documentationRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 21, 2010
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 25, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederAug 25, 2010
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 26, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederAug 26, 2010
  8. Thomas RastAug 26, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2010
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 26, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2010

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