On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:13:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > This does not necessarily mean that your lieutenants should not > > use merge.summary when they pull from other trees (or inside > > their own repository to merge in the topics). They need to > > however disable it with --no-summary when they pull from you > > when they choose to merge instead of rebase to adjust to the > > updated infrastructure in your tree. > > Yes, the problem is that people *will* get it wrong, so right now I'd > discourage people from even trying to enable merge summaries unless they > are the top-level maintainer. I never quite understood what they're for--do they add any information not already available in the history? If not, and if people still find them helpful anyway, then I dunno, it looks like a sign of some sort of failure of our history display tools. --b. - 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
