Re: Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Carl Worth wrote:

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:25:30 -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:

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 * gitweb made it appear as though a whole lot of Carl's recent
   work was somehow undone in the merge.

That looks like a simple gitweb bug. None of the other tools, (gitk,
git log -p), consider a trivial merge commit like this as having
anything interesting in it worth displaying.

It's not a bug, it is rather lack of feature (or misfeature).

Its a bug.

I'm not a gitweb user (meaning I almost never look at something
in gitweb).  But I'm clearly also not a Git newbie.  ;-)

I could not fathom why that merge commit was being displayed that
way in gitweb.  I had to clone the cairo project just so I could
actually look at the commit with log/show/whatchanged/diff-tree,
because I couldn't believe what I was seeing from gitweb.
 
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