From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:09:26 GMT
Subject: how multiple roots happen (Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/1] fixup! Documentation: start to explain what git replace is for)
Message-ID: <20110114210926.GB15286@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20110114193023.GA14294@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Maaartin wrote:

>> Maybe just something like "Let's assume there's only one and let's call
>> it FIRST". For the example, this is enough.
>
> True enough.  Even better would be to give a reference to the "coolest merge
> ever" (is that documented anywhere?) so the interested reader can discover
> how there could be more than one.

Apparently it was not clear what I was talking about (who knew?).  So
here you go:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5126

For a more modern take on it:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144302/focus=144323