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Re: [PATCH] revision: --include-diversions adds helpful merges

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Apr 9, 2020, 15:56 UTC
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
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>> Yes, but "redirect", "switch", "detour", or "divert" do not quite
>> mean "merging in a real change", at least to me.
>>
>>> I'll just submit my v2 as-is, which includes a significant change to
>>> the documentation that should make things more clear.
>> Thanks.
> Can I suggest "--side-merges" as a possible descriptor for these
> non-mainline diversions?
>
> My thesaurus had suggested detour and sidetracked, which led to the
> side-merge view.

Ahh, sorry Derrick for being slow and thanks Philip for repeating "diversion", as the word did not click for me at all when I saw the patch and wrote my response.

But I think it started slowly to dawn on me.

Does it come from the worldview where we want to follow the "trunk" but because when we notice at a merge that we got everything that matters to us from a side branch, we switch the track out of the mainline and from then on follow that side branch? Switching the track and following the side branch happens silently with the default "history simplification", but the new feature shows where that side-tracking happens more prominently---is that where the words "divert" etc. come from?

Then I can understand how these candidate words may have place in describing the situation we want to use the feature; I am not yet convinced any of the concrete option names floated on the thread (or what I can come up with right now) would be clear to our target audiences, but at least I am not as confused as I was before.

Thanks.
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  1. revision: --include-diversions adds helpful mergesDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Apr 8, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2020
  3. Derrick StoleeApr 8, 2020
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  5. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2020
  6. Jeff KingApr 8, 2020
  7. Derrick StoleeApr 8, 2020
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2020
  9. Derrick StoleeApr 8, 2020
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2020
  11. Derrick StoleeApr 9, 2020
  12. Philip OakleyApr 9, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2020
  14. Derrick StoleeApr 9, 2020
  15. Jeff KingApr 9, 2020
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2020
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  18. brian m. carlsonApr 8, 2020
  19. Jeff KingApr 8, 2020
  20. revision: --include-diversions adds helpful mergesDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Apr 9, 2020
  21. revision: --show-pulls adds helpful mergesDerrick Stolee via GitGitGadget, Apr 10, 2020
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2020
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