From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: log format for vc-bzr
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:05:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a2gb3jk.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83aawo9qws.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Óscar_Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:51:07 +0100
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> > That's your mistake, right there: this is user documentation, not
>> >> > documentation of bzr internals.
>> >>
>> >> Merge point is not about internal details. It is a fundamental concept
>> >> which the user is required to know if he pretends to make an effective
>> >> use of the DVCS.
>> >
>> > If it's such an important fundamental point, then why it is not
>> > mentioned even once in the docs? At least I couldn't find it.
>>
>> IMHO, Bazaar docs are way too simplistic when explaining DVCS core
>> concepts, if they explain them at all.
>
> I wasn't looking for explanation of core dVCS concepts.
Sorry, I thought that you asked why the bzr docs do not explain what a
merge point is.
> I was looking for the explanation of what "revert --forget-merges"
> does. It could have been explained without introducing the "merge
> point" concept.
I don't think so.
> But even if we accept that "merge points" must be understood for the
> explanation of --forget-merges, the manual still shouldn't have used
> "pending merges". If a tool has a "merge" command, then a "merge" is
> what that command does. So talking about "pending merges" after a
> merge was already done is simply bad didactically. And the "merges"
> part in --forget-merges is likewise a bad idea. --forget-merge-points
> might be a better one, because everyone will understand that a "merge
> point" is not the same as "merge".
A "merge" is the abbreviated term for "merge point". It is a merge of
two branches.
At the time you use --forget-merges the merge point still doesn't
exist. It is created by the commit. So the hypothetical name for the
option would be more like
--commit-the-source-changes-but-do-not-create-a-merge-point
--
Óscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-08 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-08 17:47 log format for vc-bzr Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-08 19:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-08 19:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-08 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-08 21:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-08 22:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-08 22:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-09 0:27 ` Jason Earl
2009-12-09 8:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-09 9:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-09 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-09 20:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-09 21:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-09 22:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-09 23:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-10 2:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-10 9:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-10 12:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-01-07 21:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-07 21:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 0:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-08 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 10:09 ` reversion revulsion [was: log format for vc-bzr] Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-08 10:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 13:41 ` reversion revulsion Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-08 14:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 14:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-08 11:21 ` reversion revulsion [was: log format for vc-bzr] Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 13:27 ` reversion revulsion Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 17:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 13:29 ` reversion revulsion [was: log format for vc-bzr] Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 13:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 10:28 ` log format for vc-bzr Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 12:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 13:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 13:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-08 14:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 14:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-08 17:56 ` bzr Q&A [was Re: log format for vc-bzr] Glenn Morris
2010-01-09 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-09 17:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-01-08 10:50 ` log format for vc-bzr Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-01-08 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 12:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-01-08 13:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-01-09 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 13:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 17:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 19:41 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-08 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 20:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 21:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 21:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-08 22:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-08 23:05 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2010-01-09 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-09 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-09 13:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-09 3:45 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-08 11:54 ` Daniel Clemente
2010-01-08 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-09 3:18 ` Daniel Clemente
2010-01-09 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-09 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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