From: Sergey Organov Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:27:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Documentation/git-merge.txt: improve short description in DESCRIPTION Message-ID: <87wphmpjvc.fsf@javad.com> In-Reply-To: Jakub Narębski writes: > W dniu 05.10.2016 o 16:46, sorganov@gmail.com pisze: >> From: Sergey Organov >> >> Old description had a few problems: >> >> - sounded as if commits have changes >> >> - stated that changes are taken since some "divergence point" >> that was not defined. >> >> New description rather uses "common ancestor" and "merge base", >> definitions of which are easily discoverable in the rest of GIT >> documentation. > > This is a step in a good direction, but it has a few issues. Thanks a lot for reviewing! I'll need time to read your reply carefully. -- Sergey