Ilya Basin <basinilya@xxxxxxxxx>: > For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in > an existing branch. For example: > > /----------E thebranch > / > A---B---C---D master > > Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new. > Instead of: > from refs/heads/thebranch^0 > refer the parent as: > from refs/heads/master^2 Understood. Do you actually need this much generality in practice, or is it a theoretical case? > OK, something's wrong with the man page: starting with '-A' the > description is unstructured: Interesting. The aciidoc parser got a little confused, but inserting some blank lines fixed it. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- 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