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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mergetool: clarify local/remote terminology
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:21:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225192106.GB19666@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490802251107y44ff2d6ahf5446ae0408c67b0@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:07:11PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

> I was playing with that, figuring out branch names in the same way that the
> code in bashcompletions computes ps1. However, what would you want to see if
> you're doing an interactive rebase of say HEAD vs HEAD~5. They are both the
> same branch, so what would you want to see?

Probably HEAD and HEAD~5 (perhaps along with their oneline logs). I
think the best we can do is "whatever the user said to get us here"
which is not something you can calculate after the fact; you have to
remember what the user said.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21  5:12 [RFC/PATCH] mergetool: clarify local/remote terminology Jay Soffian
2008-02-25 14:31 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-25 18:46   ` Jeff King
2008-02-25 19:07     ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-25 19:21       ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-02-25 20:09         ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-25 20:11           ` Jeff King
2008-02-28  8:43     ` Jeff King
2008-02-29  5:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-01  4:41         ` Jeff King

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