From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Mathias Rav" <m@git•strova.dk>,
"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood@dunelm•org.uk>,
"John Cai" <johncai86@gmail•com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks•im>,
git@vger•kernel.org, "Karthik Nayak" <karthik.188@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] merge-file: fix BUG when --object-id is used in a worktree
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:16:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b2a192e-240a-45d2-92a5-7ab669f481a9@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5x72qnu6.fsf@gitster.g>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026, at 18:26, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>[snip]
>>
>> Turns out that this has been attempted least once before:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/git/1472230741-5161-1-git-send-email-dev+git@drbeat.li/
>
> True.
>
> Perhaps something like this patch makes it clear that what the gitk
> command gives and what --pretty=reference gives are not identical,
> to avoid confusion like this? I dunno.
>
>
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index e270ccbe85..fad0b41af0 100644
> --- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ date)", like this:
> ....
>
> The "Copy commit reference" command of gitk can be used to obtain this
> -format (with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes), or this
And now I see for the first time that the doc points out the difference
already... I’m really paying attention it turns out.
> +format (but with the subject enclosed in an extra pair of double-quotes), or this
I think replacing “with” with “but” is good. But why “extra” pairs? It’s
just a pair of double quotes.
> invocation of `git show`:
>
> ....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-11 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 11:46 [PATCH] merge-file: fix BUG when --object-id is used in a worktree Mathias Rav
2026-03-10 12:35 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-03-10 12:49 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-03-10 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-11 6:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Mathias Rav
2026-03-11 7:18 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-03-11 11:14 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-03-11 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-11 20:16 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2026-03-18 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-18 19:16 ` Mathias Rav
2026-03-18 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-10 13:34 ` [PATCH] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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