Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I asked because I thought you see some essential difference between two >> tests, as you didn't suggest to add similar permutation test to the >> original. I think this reply resolves my doubt. > > Yeah, I didn't explain this very well. > > The thing is that the way "--first-parent" interacts with other > options that countermand "--diff-merges" (i.e. "--no-diff-merges" > and "--diff-merges=off") needs to be highlighted with extra clarity, > simply because "--first-parent" is different from a simple > "combination" of "follow the first parent commit chain while > traversing" and "--diff-merges" [*1*] [...] Thanks a lot for thorough explanations, Junio! I appreciate it and will re-read them more carefully, in the morning. For now, can we leave these patches as-is and then add additional tests on top, please? I'm afraid that adding them now will force me to rewrite current descriptions, as the result won't be minimal anymore, and I feel uneasy about writing commit messages for these permuted tests anyway. Thanks, -- Sergey
