On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I see. Thank you. What do you think about the following minor patch >> for user-manual.txt? > > While the updated text is more correct than the original, I do not > know if that is sufficient, or we would also want to mention the > "Already up-to-date!" case here while at it. I thought about that, and IMHO it's not needed. The section name is "Fast-forward merges" and intends to introduce the "fast-forward" concept, which is irrelevant to "Already up-to-date!". Although the "Already up-to-date!" case isn't mentioned all over the manual, it's pretty clear to me (as someone who isn't quite familiar with Git). >> -However, if the current branch is a descendant of the other--so every >> -commit present in the one is already contained in the other--then Git >> -just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved >> -forward to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new >> -commits being created. >> +However, if the current branch is an ancestor of the other--so every commit >> +present in the current branch is already contained in the other >> branch--then Git >> +just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved forward >> +to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new commits being >> +created. -- 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