From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:25:15 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2020, #03; Fri, 18)
Message-ID: <CABPp-BErnY+zfmp-LWTe0EUB5QKKcLCP=4t9VxwvA_+DaBvDuw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqblepnd9k.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:32 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What do you mean when you say these two topics are tangled?
>
> When two topics are "one builds on top of the whole of the other",
> my tool labels "uses" vs "is used by".  All other cases where two
> topics share a commit are labeled as "tangled", as I couldn't come
> up with any better phrase.

I'm still confused.  en/merge-ort-3 and en/merge-ort-recursive do not
share any commits.  The only tie is that each "uses en/merge-ort-2",
as you noted, but that was already noted separately.  Am I missing
something?