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Re: who's on first? - following first parent and merge-management

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 8, 2012, 07:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20120308074911.GA23712@burratino>
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<7vty1zfwmd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Hi all,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Given the above definition, the first thing to realize is that "the
> first parent" is primarily a local concept.
[... and much nice explanation ...]

Would you mind including this explanation as a new file with some name like <Documentation/howto/using-first-parent.txt>? I think the quoted explanation is very clear and I have not come up with any obvious tweaks to make to it, which is why I am simply suggesting this instead of sending a patch that would repeat the same text.

Strawman abstract:
| From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:13:46 -0800
| Subject: who's on first? - following first parent and merge-management
| Abstract: In this article, JC describes the "log --first-parent" and
|  "merge --no-ff" options and what kind of history makes them useful.

Hm? Jonathan

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Message 12 of 13 in “who's on first? - following first parent and merge-management”
  1. Neal KreitzingerMar 7, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2012
  4. Jeff KingMar 8, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2012
  6. Johannes SixtMar 8, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2012
  8. Holger HellmuthMar 9, 2012
  9. Johannes SixtMar 9, 2012
  10. Holger HellmuthMar 9, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2012
  12. Jonathan NiederMar 8, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2012

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