Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 18, 2008, 11:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807181356010.3932@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080718175040.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:

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> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> 
> > * xx/merge-in-c-into-next (Wed Jul 9 13:51:46 2008 -0700) 4 commits
> >  + Teach git-merge -X<option> again.
> >  + Merge branch 'jc/merge-theirs' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
> >  + builtin-merge.c: use parse_options_step() "incremental parsing"
> >    machinery
> >  + Merge branch 'ph/parseopt-step-blame' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
> >
> > This needs to be merged to master iff/when merge-theirs gets merged, 
> > but I do not think this series is widely supported, so both are on 
> > hold.
> 
> Why do you say it is not widely supported?  I may be wrong but I think 
> you developed these patches after somebody from the mailing list asked 
> for this feature.

Asking for a feature, and then not doing a single thing to defend why it makes sense, of a single person, who does not even speak up now, does not count for "wide support".

Ciao, Dscho