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Re: Putting the manual in git post-squeeze? [was: Bug#610752: Make the link detection timeout preseedable]



On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 15:39 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> git checkout $REV^
> cat en/$XMl
> git checkout master 

I think that simplifies to
	git show $REV^:en/$XML

> Despite talk of the manual needing a VCS with ordered revision
> numbers, that's the only thing I find that uses such an ordering, 
> and git can handle the same thing using ^ as shown.

What does git do if $REV is a merge? ... <scrobbles> ... it appears to
choose the first parent. I'm not sure what the correct/desired behaviour
is in this context though.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell
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