Re: [PATCH v2] advice: add stashBeforeCheckout advice for dirty branch switches Arsh Srivastava <arshsrivastava00@gmail.com> writes: Show 13 quoted lines > Subject: Re: [GSOC] advice: add stashBeforeCheckout advice for dirty
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> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Doesn't 'ADVICE_COMMIT_BEFORE_MERGE' already do this?
>> So won't this simply be duplicating the same message?
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> Thank you for the detailed review. You are correct, the existing message
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> I will rework the patch in that direction and send a v4.
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> Signed-off-by: Arsh Srivastava <arshsrivastava00@gmail.com> Just a comment by a bystander, but it confuses me quite a lot to see in-body "Subject:" and "Sign-off" in a message that is *not* a patch at all. What are you signing off with this signature?
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