From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:07:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812121459400.30035@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081212182827.28408.40963.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>


Another obvious correction...

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, David Howells wrote:

> +     A commit object will typically refer to one base commit when someone has
> +     merely committed some changes on top of the current state, and two base
> +     commits when a couple of trees have been merged.

If you have two bases, then only two trees were merged together.  If you 
merged a "couple" of trees, then a "couple" of bases are registered.


Nicolas