From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzltn4kti.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LNX.1.00.0802261123170.19024@iabervon.org
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>>
>> > ... Note that the single boundary test is empirical, not
>> > theoretical; even a -2 limiting condition will give a diffstat if there's
>> > only one boundary commit in this particular case.
>>
>> It is unclear what "a -2 limiting condition" means here...
>
> Like "git format-patch -2". What is that actually called?
"max count"? So you wanted to say that the new code sometimes
figures out (with --boundary) what to compare against even when
the user does not explicitly specify where the range begins from
the command line. Thanks for a clarification.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 23:24 [PATCH 2/2] Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-26 0:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-26 16:27 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-26 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-28 6:18 ` [PATCH] format-patch: remove a leftover debugging message Junio C Hamano
2008-02-28 15:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-26 9:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter Junio C Hamano
2008-02-26 9:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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