From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:26:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] merge-recursive: use "up-to-date" instead of "uptodate" in error message for consistency
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Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
> ---
>
> The 07/07/10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> The "struct unpack_trees_error_msgs" mechanism was introduced so that we
>> can change the Porcelain level messages without breaking the plumbing API,
>> which these messages are part of.  Please see 8ccba00 (unpack-trees: allow
>> Porcelain to give different error messages, 2008-05-17) and fadd069
>> (merge-recursive: give less scary messages when merge did not start,
>> 2009-09-07) for backstory.
>
> Oh, thanks. I was unaware of this mechanism and didn't care about what I was
> touching.

I suspect that the documentation patch talks about a nonexistent reality.
See 8ccba00 again ;-)