Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2006, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <e30k0n$ij5$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viros1585.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>  * "prior" - heads that represent topic branch merges
> 
> This is not any different from usual "parent" at all (but you
> have to think about it a bit to realize it).

[cut] Thanks for an explanation.

I would say that "prior" is not THAT different from usual "parent", rather than it is not ANY different.

My doubts about recording previous head of a "union" (pu-like) branch is that for merge (e.g. 'pu' to 'next', cherrypick to/from 'pu', 'pu' rebase) is that for merge algorithm all parents are equivalent, with eventual exception of first which can be treated special ('ours').

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland