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Re: 'next'ed --allow-unrelated-histories could cause lots of grief

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2016, 19:37 UTC
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Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com> writes:
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>> It is not very productive to make such an emotional statement
>> without substantiating _why_ a merge that adds a new root, which was
>> declared in the thread above as "crap" (in the context of the kernel
>> project),
>
> Sorry if my statement sounded too emotional ;)  I will outline some of
> the use-cases below.

Thanks. Emotional is fine, as long as you _also_ have useful information.

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