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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Improve collection of information for format-patch
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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.