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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b6610d5 2/4: emacs-lisp/package.el: Refactor pre-execute prompt
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:23:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnizg2u2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-J7VOFVvURLu2o06E+jFS+MaKguuhzAhdA6i1_QZtRtSQ@mail.gmail.com>

Artur Malabarba writes:

 > Once foo is merged into master, all the commits made in foo are added
 > to master, and an additional merge commit is created.

That's a controversial interpretation.  Not wrong, but many people
like to think of "the branch" as being a linear history following
first parents.  AFAIK everybody agrees on the term "reachable from"
master to describe how commits from the source branch are "added to"
the target branch.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20150406102057.929.89886@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1Yf49K-0000G6-N0@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-04-06 10:51   ` [Emacs-diffs] master b6610d5 2/4: emacs-lisp/package.el: Refactor pre-execute prompt Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-06 11:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 14:01       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-06 14:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 15:22           ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-06 16:01             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-06 16:25               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-06 16:54                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-06 17:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 17:03                   ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-06 17:40                   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-07 19:23                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2015-04-06 13:49     ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-06 21:22       ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-06 23:41         ` Artur Malabarba

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