Re: Logical bug during MERGE or REBASE

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

On 03/07/21 14.57, Atharva Raykar wrote:
> Let's look at the diffs (I have annotated this with arrows):
> 
> $ # common ancestor, ie, the first commit
> $ initial=$(git merge-base master dev)
> 
> $ git diff $initial master
> 
> diff --git a/program.cs b/program.cs
> index 8bc1a4d..93f872f 100644
> --- a/program.cs
> +++ b/program.cs
> @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
>   {
>    Console.Writeline("1");
> + Console.Writeline("2");
> + Console.Readline();
>    Console.Readline();     <--- X
>   }
> 
> $ git diff $initial dev
> 
> diff --git a/program.cs b/program.cs
> index 8bc1a4d..eb91c97 100644
> --- a/program.cs
> +++ b/program.cs
> @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
>   {
>    Console.Writeline("1");
>    Console.Readline();     <--- X
> + Console.Readline();
> + Console.Readline();
>   }
> 
> As you can tell, on the master branch, Git sees the changes as
> "lines were added above the line labeled X",
> and on the dev branch, Git sees the changes as
> "lines were added below the line labeled X".

What's the purpose of "X-labeled line" above?

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