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Re: use of temporary refs in resolve

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 7, 2005, 20:18 UTC
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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> How about LAST_MERGE?

I don't think it matters. I kind of saw it as the "other side" of ORIG_HEAD, but since we now clean it up and since I've never used it, I think it falls under the status of "well-intentioned but useless".

		Linus
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