From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C521F8C8 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232934AbhIQQeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:34:10 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:60562 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231351AbhIQQeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:34:10 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60375F619D; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:32:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=X9pBzHD/A3+sipOCJf+qh4qImkmBGAvpsuWK2J pJHoo=; b=RR4H1O8OfywKffIde3BlTv2ODqx/PifKZaj4CU4vPOU6ImD0nOaFX7 aHrBDPKEb/diW+rCzDeNZQ1VjbTdQFX8GpAA98OSMSFwDNWql0Vy/2VhEV/bNgAT cwnzQwasIiat0NQuJRzJQsFF7fLwZTomQCemPMO/yFtHS/cxqtlA0= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AD9F619C; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:32:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.133.2.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8127F619B; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:32:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Sergey Organov Cc: Johannes Sixt , Jeff King , Paul Mackerras , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: diff-index --cc no longer permitted, gitk is now broken (slightly) References: <87h7f4tf0b.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <87pmtjkwsj.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <87sfy497ed.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <874kaki1nb.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <87bl4rk7bh.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:32:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87bl4rk7bh.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:08:34 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E4052B70-17D4-11EC-94D7-62A2C8D8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Sergey Organov writes: > Ah, now I see, but it's exactly lack of documentation (and tests) that I > was referring to as the "problem of the historical status quo" on the > Git side, so I was somewhat confused by your original response. Well, you said the fixup "restores" the status quo, but in fact, with or without the fixup, before or after it, the lack of documentation was there. So I thought you were talking about something else. >> I wanted to give you some credit for having worked on "--diff-merges", >> an effort to generalize things in a related area. > > Thanks for that! More to follow ) I somehow expect there was need for no further work in this area, but there are also many other areas in Git where your talent is applicable and appreciated, I am sure ;-) Thanks.