Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> I personally want to be able to dump patches, including merges, to >> git-format-patch format, in such a way that all other information (eg, >> committer, date, etc) is preserved. >> > > We already talked about that on IRC, and you have not even _begun_ to > think about the fundamental issues with merges-in-a-patch. I mentioned a > few on IRC, and am still awaiting your reply. > Well, you could store diffs from both parents, or a custom diff format that marks different ancestors, etc. Sure, they wouldn't apply with 'patch', but that's the breaks. I don't see the encoding of the information as such a fundamental and insurmountable issue. Why do you consider it so? Sam. - 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
