Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 21:40 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611151638550.2591@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7virhgjt25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I am wondering if that could be "git merge <committish>..."
> instead.  I do not care too much about the ... part (i.e. an
> Octopus), but I often find myself doing:
> 
> 	git checkout next
>         git merge "Merge early part of branch 'foo'" HEAD foo~3
> 
> when earlier part of "foo" topic are worthy to be in 'next' but
> not the later ones.

Indeed !

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