Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:19:42AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that... > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > It does not have to be a fast-forward. After all, what is another merge? > > Since that merge does not have Junio as committer, close inspection of > > the commit will reveal that. > > It _does_ have to be a fast-forward, if you expect the tree to have the > same content as Junio's. > > Even if it merges everything automatically, if the history is different, > it could in theory at least merge _differently_ than what Junio had. Plus > you'll have a really ugly version history for no good reason. And if Junio will want to merge with many of those people, you will better have to get a dualhead for your gitk. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Oct 21 10:35:25 2005
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