From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:31:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Octopus merge: unique (?) to git, but is it useful?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806030929540.13507@racer.site.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vod6j3whp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Would it not be better (simpler, cleaner) to just use an object flag?
> 
> No.  Can you tell which flag is safe to use in this context without 
> digging around too much?

Was this not in builtin-commit.c?  AFAIR we said that the revision 
machinery must not use flags higher than 1<<12 or so, which would be left 
for users.

But I see that you already have the patch in 'master', so I guess you will 
not change it.

Ciao,
Dscho