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Re: The coolest merge EVER!

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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Jun 24, 2005, 11:54 UTC
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<pan.2005.06.24.11.54.51.598627@smurf.noris.de>
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Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I suspect there
> would be a massive additional support needed if you want to make it easy
> for Paul to pull changes made to gitk in your tree.

I don't think that's possible; after all, the trees are now merged, so any pull would fetch all of Linus' tree.

Paul could do it as patches, or Linus could do it in a branch, or we could write something entirely different from git that happens to support cherrypicking. ;-)

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Message 5 of 7 in “The coolest merge EVER!”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 22, 2005
  2. Jon SeymourJun 23, 2005
  3. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2005
  5. Matthias UrlichsJun 24, 2005
  6. Daniel BarkalowJun 24, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2005

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