Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] Add option to transpose parents of merge commit

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Nov 28, 2012, 06:56 UTC
Message-ID: <50B5B599.3020105@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1354057217-65886-4-git-send-email-draenog@pld-linux.org>

Am 11/28/2012 0:00, schrieb Kacper Kornet:

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> When the changes are pushed upstream, and in the meantime someone else
> updated upstream branch git advises to use git pull. This results in
> history:
> 
>      ---A---B---C--
>          \     /
>           D---E

The commit message will say:

  Merge branch 'master' of /that/remote

  * 'master' of /that/remote:
    E
    D

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> where B is the local commit. D, E are commits pushed by someone else
> when the developer was working on B. However sometimes the following
> history is preferable:
> 
>     ---A---D---C'--
>         \     /
>          '-B-'

Better:

     ---A--D--E--C'
         \      /
          `----B

In this case, the commit message should say... what? Certainly not the same thing. But I do not see that you changed anything in this regard.

-- Hannes