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From: Minnie Shi <minnie.shi@gmail.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I think there is error in merge documents - current branch
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 15:28:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQx3Ab80NMGiMnX+XciYHfXkQG1-PEeuhYO6npP-koCQqsHww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg5xq3es.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Hi All,

What is the procedure to update the document to correct the error? As
I responded yesterday, see below. we need to change the error.

From: Minnie Shi <minnie.shi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 20, 2023 at 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: merge: fix mention of `ORIG_HEAD`
To: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>


Okay, i read one more time, i think it should be read as

Before the operation,
-`ORIG_HEAD` is set to the tip of the "current" branch (`G`)

instead of
Before the operation,
-`ORIG_HEAD` is set to the tip of the "current" branch (`C`)

Kind regards,
Mi

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 2:23 PM Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Minnie Shi <minnie.shi@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> in summary the sentence should be read as
> >>
> >> Before the operation, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the current branch (H).
> >> instead of
> >> Before the operation, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the current branch (C).
> >
> > Not C but G (i.e. the tip _before_ the history is updated).
> >
> > I notice that we overuse "current" there.  One is to refer to the
> > most recent commit on a branch, the other is to refer to the branch
> > that is checked out.  For the former, we say "the tip" in the other
> > sentence, and it probably will make it less ambiguous if used that
> > phrase.
> >
> >     Then "`git merge topic`" will replay the changes made on the
> >     `topic` branch since it diverged from `master` (i.e., `E`) until
> >     the commit at the tip of the `topic` (`C`) on top of `master`,
> >     and record the result
> >     in a new commit along with the names of the two parent commits and
> >     a log message from the user describing the changes. Before the operation,
> >     `ORIG_HEAD` is set to the tip of the current branch (`G`).
> >
> > My reading also hiccupped with "replay"; the first sentence to
> > explain the command says "incorporate the changes", and that may be
> > a less confusing expression; "replay" somehow makes me imagine that
> > the changes are cherry-picked one by one---it may be only me, so I
> > left it as-is in the suggestion above.
>
> For me "apply changes" or even "apply cumulative changes" works much
> better than "replay changes" in this context, especially provided we
> will apparently have "git replay" soon.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Sergey Organov



-- 
Kind regards
Min

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-21 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-20  8:01 I think there is error in merge documents - current branch Minnie Shi
2023-05-20  8:44 ` [PATCH] doc: merge: fix mention of `ORIG_HEAD` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-20  9:25   ` Minnie Shi
2023-05-20  9:41     ` Minnie Shi
2023-05-20 22:27 ` I think there is error in merge documents - current branch Junio C Hamano
2023-05-21 10:49   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-21 12:23   ` Sergey Organov
2023-05-21 13:28     ` Minnie Shi [this message]
2023-05-21 13:49       ` Minnie Shi

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