From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: use of temporary refs in resolve
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508071256140.3258@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bplwmzg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Also ORIG_HEAD is probably redundant.  After a successful
> automerge, the same information can be had by HEAD^1

Absolutely not.

You forgot about one of the most common merge cases: fast-forward.

In fact, ORIG_HEAD is _the_ most common head I use explicitly. Almost all 
operations take HEAD as default, but doing a

	gitk ORIG_HEAD..

is extremely useful after a pull.

		Linus