Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7virflca43.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051457020.3661@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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>> Ah, there are those annoying "using this as the merge base whose
>> commit log is..." business.  I wonder if anybody is actually
>> reading them (I once considered squelching that output).
>
> "output_commit_title()" used it. Not just for the merge base, but for the 
> regular "merging X and Y" messages, I think.

Yes, what I really was wondering were (1) if the messages are useful, and (2) if so should that belong to git-merge not git-merge-recursive.

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