From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:20 +0200 Message-ID: <8361e97tu3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <20141117141123.GA4294@acm.acm> <83lhn89zxn.fsf@gnu.org> <83bno49xtw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141118224326.GA5167@acm.acm> <87mw7n8k0f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20141119135530.GA3986@acm.acm> <87k32q3c9s.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416498790 10931 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2014 15:53:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 16:52:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU2S-0004vm-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:52:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU2S-0005wN-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU27-0005w5-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU1v-0003wO-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:52:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU1v-0003vG-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFC00I00H7GYE00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFC00I8IHF9B9B0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k32q3c9s.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177875 Archived-At: > From: Alexis > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:57:15 +1100 > > At this point, neither 'foo' nor 'bar' are /the/ 'official' continuation > of 'experiment'. From a workflow perspective, they have equal authority > - any linear ordering imposed by when the branches got created is > irrelevant. Yes, at a later time, it might be decided that the 'bar' > branch becomes the 'official' continuation of the 'experiment' branch, > i.e. the structure would become: > > - C - D ... Z <- foo > / > ... - A - B - E - F ... <- bar > > But until that time, it makes no sense to speak of either the 'foo' > branch or 'bar' branch as /the/ continuation of the 'experiment' branch. They both are.