From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/resend] Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:31:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vaafvqsu0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA47A4D.80909@lyx.org> (Vincent van Ravesteijn's message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:14:05 +0200")
Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> writes:
> Sorry for the noise caused by the previous attempt(s). Apparently my attempts
> to let Thunderbird _not wrap_ the lines were counterproductive.
I was wondering what that was about.
> +When the option `--octopus` is given, the result of `git merge-base A B C`
> +will be '2', because '2' is the common ancestor of all branches.
Wouldn't it be easier to read if you had the option in the command line, i.e.
The result of `git merge-base --octopus A B C` is '2' because...
without "When ... given" that now become noisewords?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 16:14 [PATCH/resend] Documentation: update to git-merge-base --octopus Vincent van Ravesteijn
2011-04-12 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-04-12 19:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-15 8:43 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
2011-04-15 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-15 8:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Vincent van Ravesteijn
2011-04-15 8:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Restructure documentation for git-merge-base Vincent van Ravesteijn
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