"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: >> I think this is about > > Yes, but the original wording didn't make me think that. Yeah, it is very plausible that it is not limited to you, and I agree that it is worthwhile to update the description around here. >>> Also, does 'earliest commit requiring fixup/squash' fully convey that >>> its the one to fix. >> >> I cannot tell if that a question or a statement? > > It's a question. In your prior para you offer "they fix the very first > commit that invited these fixups" as an alternate. I think both are equally understandable to me (but I am not the primary target audience). > It's when a users mental model is that they got their first fixup > wrong and it's that fixup they are correcting, and later they add > different fixups to the orignal that it all gets hairy. > (diffs must have the right sequence, while snapshots don't care - so > if we keep the diff sequence, we don't care about the user's mental > model as the end results are the same). > > The writeup needs to cope with the mental model rather than the end result. Yes, yes. -- 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