Changesets and multiple ancestors

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 01:43 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> ...
> 
>>I don't see how you can do otherwise, and still have it be compatible
>>with patch(1), which is a design goal.
> 
> 
> One way - have a human representation - the summary if you like - that
> records the aggregate data, but doesn't show annotation information or
> other such behind-the-scenes data we need to capture.

People don't want that; they want a lightly-annotated diff.  It's been
indicated that heavily-annotated diffs would not be acceptable on LKML,
for example.

Aaron
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