Re: auto merge bug

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 5, 2013, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <51365C0F.8070207@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7va9qhu1jk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 03/05/2013 07:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>> I'm also not sure how useful those really are in practice. I have not
>> used "union" myself ever. And in the example that started this thread, I
>> find the use of "union" slightly dubious.
> 
> Yeah, I do not think anybody sane used "union" outside toy examples.

I do, for lists used in tests or to generate perfect hashes from. It's really quite handy for things like that but totally useless for any type of multiline format, or even .ini style files unless you're very, very careful with how you write them.

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