Re: [PATCH] merge-tree: accept 3 trees as arguments

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2024, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqil3974kw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEDLsVFxjr13XJX9eBLeqD+tRoeHxwJyPsc_+AgGY2GTw@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 9:15 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> > but aaaaaaa and bbbbbbb are not commits that they can find.
>>
>> Correct.  They are what they fed as two trees to be merged, aren't
>> they?  They (or the script that drives merge-tree and fed these two
>> trees) should be recognise these two trees, as long as they are told

I notice "able to" is missing here...

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>> that is what we show, no?
> ...
> Yeah, I was worried though that the end user wasn't the one running
> the git-merge-tree command, and was trying to dig more into usage
> cases.

Sure. That is exactly why I wrote "They (or the script that drives..." above.