From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter
Message-ID: <7vzltn4kti.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802261123170.19024@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>> 
>> > ... Note that the single boundary test is empirical, not 
>> > theoretical; even a -2 limiting condition will give a diffstat if there's 
>> > only one boundary commit in this particular case.
>> 
>> It is unclear what "a -2 limiting condition" means here...
>
> Like "git format-patch -2". What is that actually called?

"max count"?  So you wanted to say that the new code sometimes
figures out (with --boundary) what to compare against even when
the user does not explicitly specify where the range begins from
the command line.  Thanks for a clarification.