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Re: Questions about branches in git

From
Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 28, 2010, 23:01 UTC
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<b4087cc51001281501y67a35f22k732c412ce2b46fb1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Mike Linck <mgl@absolute-performance.com> wrote:

> Your example will work on non-FF branches if you make the second
> merge-base use master~1 (else it just gives you the same commit sha
> twice)

That's the point of the '^' character that I used in my example; it wasn't a mistake.

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