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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: messages confusing
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:58:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100706085844.GB13054@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v630t5dvo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

The 05/07/10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> This is quite an old message; I don't think it has much to do with 1.7-ness
> of your version.
> 
> The first "uptodate" refers to your tree state being up-to-date.  You
> already had the necessary changes the other history wanted you to
> have---they were acquired in your history before you started this merge by
> some other means.  Perhaps merging from other trees, or picking up
> equivalent patches from mailing list, etc.

This is what I was guessing but wanted to be sure that the resulting
messages were intended as is.

> A merge commit is still created in this case, in order to record the fact
> that everything origin/master wanted to do to your history has already
> been reconciled to your history.  Otherwise "git log ..origin/master" will
> still show commits your history does not have.

Thanks for the explanations.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht

      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-06  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-06  5:35 messages confusing Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-06  5:53 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-07-06  9:13   ` [PATCH] use "up-to-date" in messages instead of "uptodate" for consistency Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-06 12:47     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-06 15:55       ` [PATCH v2] use "up-to-date" " Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-07  5:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-07  5:46           ` [PATCH v2] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-07  7:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-07  7:54               ` [PATCH v3] merge-recursive: use "up-to-date" instead of "uptodate" in error message " Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-08  0:26                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-09 20:27                   ` [PATCH 1/2] checkout: accord documentation to what git does Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-09 20:27                     ` [PATCH v4 2/2] merge-recursive: use "up-to-date" instead of "uptodate" in error message for consistency Nicolas Sebrecht
2010-07-10  0:39                       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-10  0:36                     ` [PATCH 1/2] checkout: accord documentation to what git does Junio C Hamano
2010-07-06  6:21 ` messages confusing Junio C Hamano
2010-07-06  8:58   ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]

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