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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: pull: fix rebase=false documentation
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>> But that does not necessarily mean swapping the parent order would
>> produce the history of a right shape, either, even for those with
>> the "first-parent chain is the trunk" worldview.
>
> Why not?

I gave detailed write-up in two discussion threads linked already in
this thread from 2013 and 2014; as I said, I do not think we want to
debate that as part of the discussion of this documentation fix.