From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mergetool: clarify local/remote terminology
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:09:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490802251209u240bc0b2s8e268c7f1943c3d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225192106.GB19666@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.
Right, so the porcelain would have to save this information somewhere
for mergetool to access (yes/no/maybe?).
Anyway, that's why the first iteration of my patch takes --left
and --right arguments so at least you can tell it how you got
there.
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 20:10 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
2008-02-25 20:09 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
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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