Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> is it possible to >> merge without remote contact in the boring case, when no changes have >> occured outside the narrow tree? > > That's possible (and is implemented in my series). But I guess as soon > as you do "git pull", the boring case is likely not applicable > anymore. Makes sense. One slightly less boring case. Is it possible to merge when the simplified history, looking only at changes outside the narrow tree, would have permitted a fast-forward? If so, a git contributor who is only interested in Documentation/ could work on "next" between releases and keep up with "maint" and "master" longer term, without the help of a full-tree-merging machine. More realistically, a linux-2.6 contributor only interested in one subsystem could always keep up with "master". Which would be nice. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html