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Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Aug 28, 2009, 13:51 UTC
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seanh <seanh.nospam@gmail.com> writes:
> In response to Matthieu and Paolo, I'm not sure I understand the git 
> internals involved in the discussion around merge --squash, I had a 
> feeling this would produce a 'merge' that git in some sense would 'not 
> know about',

Yes, that's it. Git does a merge, and immediately forgets it was a merge. The consequence is when you merge again later, Git will not be able to use the merge information to be clever about merging. Somehow, Git will be as bad as SVN for merging if you don't know what you're doing ;-).

> since it sounds complex and I don't understand it I don't think I
> want to go there.
Well, it's fun also to learn Git notions in more details ;-).
-- 
Matthieu
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Message 7 of 23 in “Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions”
  1. seanhAug 27, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 27, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 27, 2009
  4. Paolo BonziniAug 28, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2009
  6. seanhAug 28, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2009
  8. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  9. Merging in Subversion 1.5 (was: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions)Jakub Narebski, Aug 28, 2009
  10. Avery PennarunAug 28, 2009
  11. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  12. Jakub NarebskiAug 28, 2009
  13. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  14. Avery PennarunAug 28, 2009
  15. Sam VilainAug 30, 2009
  16. Dmitry PotapovAug 31, 2009
  17. david@lang.hmAug 28, 2009
  18. Paolo BonziniAug 28, 2009
  19. demerphqAug 28, 2009
  20. david@lang.hmAug 28, 2009
  21. demerphqAug 28, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2009
  23. demerphqAug 27, 2009

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