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2014-01-27Merge branch 'ef/mingw-write'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ef/mingw-write: mingw: remove mingw_write prefer xwrite instead of write
2014-01-17prefer xwrite instead of writeLibravatar Erik Faye-Lund1-1/+1
Our xwrite wrapper already deals with a few potential hazards, and are as such more robust. Prefer it instead of write to get the robustness benefits everywhere. Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Reviewed-and-improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Libravatar Christian Couder1-6/+6
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31merge: simplify ff-only optionLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-9/+2
No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-17Merge branch 'rh/ishes-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and "tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to their dashed form. More importantly, clarify the documentation on object peeling using these terms. * rh/ishes-doc: glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref' revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>} glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish) use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish' use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish' glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish) glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
2013-09-04use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'Libravatar Richard Hansen1-1/+1
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish' to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'. The only remaining instances of 'committish' are: * variable, function, and macro names * "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in gitglossary[7] Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOLLibravatar Stefan Beller1-6/+6
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN, 2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism, but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean. This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22Merge branch 'nd/const-struct-cache-entry'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* nd/const-struct-cache-entry: Convert "struct cache_entry *" to "const ..." wherever possible
2013-07-15Merge branch 'mv/merge-ff-tristate'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-22/+33
The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of "last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration" correctly. * mv/merge-ff-tristate: merge: handle --ff/--no-ff/--ff-only as a tri-state option
2013-07-12Merge branch 'ms/remote-tracking-branches-in-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* ms/remote-tracking-branches-in-doc: Change "remote tracking" to "remote-tracking"
2013-07-09Convert "struct cache_entry *" to "const ..." wherever possibleLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
I attempted to make index_state->cache[] a "const struct cache_entry **" to find out how existing entries in index are modified and where. The question I have is what do we do if we really need to keep track of on-disk changes in the index. The result is - diff-lib.c: setting CE_UPTODATE - name-hash.c: setting CE_HASHED - preload-index.c, read-cache.c, unpack-trees.c and builtin/update-index: obvious - entry.c: write_entry() may refresh the checked out entry via fill_stat_cache_info(). This causes "non-const struct cache_entry *" in builtin/apply.c, builtin/checkout-index.c and builtin/checkout.c - builtin/ls-files.c: --with-tree changes stagemask and may set CE_UPDATE Of these, write_entry() and its call sites are probably most interesting because it modifies on-disk info. But this is stat info and can be retrieved via refresh, at least for porcelain commands. Other just uses ce_flags for local purposes. So, keeping track of "dirty" entries is just a matter of setting a flag in index modification functions exposed by read-cache.c. Except unpack-trees, the rest of the code base does not do anything funny behind read-cache's back. The actual patch is less valueable than the summary above. But if anyone wants to re-identify the above sites. Applying this patch, then this: diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index 430d021..1692891 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static inline unsigned int canon_mode(unsigned int mode) #define cache_entry_size(len) (offsetof(struct cache_entry,name) + (len) + 1) struct index_state { - struct cache_entry **cache; + const struct cache_entry **cache; unsigned int version; unsigned int cache_nr, cache_alloc, cache_changed; struct string_list *resolve_undo; will help quickly identify them without bogus warnings. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-03Change "remote tracking" to "remote-tracking"Libravatar Michael Schubert1-2/+2
Fix a typo ("remote remote-tracking") going back to the big cleanup in 2010 (8b3f3f84 etc). Also, remove some more occurrences of "tracking" and "remote tracking" in favor of "remote-tracking". Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com> Reviewed-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-02merge: handle --ff/--no-ff/--ff-only as a tri-state optionLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-22/+33
These three options mean "favor fast-forwarding when possible, without creating an unnecessary merge", "never fast-forward and always create a merge commit even when the commit being merged is a strict descendant", and "we do not want to create any merge commit; update only when the merged commit is a strict descendant". They are "pick one out of these three possibilities" options, and correspond to "merge.ff" configuration that is tri-state (yes, no and only). However, the implementation did not follow the usual convention for the command line options (later one wins, and command line overrides what is in the configuration). Fix this by consolidating two variables (fast_forward_only and allow_fast_forward) used in the implementation into one enum that can take one of the three possible values. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-08merge: use help_unknown_ref()Libravatar Vikrant Varma1-1/+2
Use help.c:help_unknown_ref() instead of die() to provide a friendlier error message before exiting, when one of the refs specified in a merge is unknown. Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-05Merge branch 'sg/gpg-sig'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+36
Teach "merge/pull" to optionally verify and reject commits that are not signed properly. * sg/gpg-sig: pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U' merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged commit.c/GPG signature verification: Also look at the first GPG status line Move commit GPG signature verification to commit.c
2013-04-05Merge branch 'jc/merge-tag-object'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
"git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from "git merge v1.8.2" as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. This makes the code notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref() based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags. * jc/merge-tag-object: t6200: test message for merging of an annotated tag t6200: use test_config/test_unconfig merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
2013-03-31merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signaturesLibravatar Sebastian Götte1-0/+3
When --verify-signatures is specified, abort the merge in case a good GPG signature from an untrusted key is encountered. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-31merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being mergedLibravatar Sebastian Götte1-1/+33
When --verify-signatures is specified on the command-line of git-merge or git-pull, check whether the commits being merged have good gpg signatures and abort the merge in case they do not. This allows e.g. auto-deployment from untrusted repo hosts. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
The user could have said "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)"; we shouldn't mark it as "Merge commit '15999998fb...'" as the merge name, even though such an invocation might be crazy. We could even read the "tag " header from the tag object and replace the object name the user gave us, but let's not lose the information by doing so, at least not yet. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-04Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from the default '#'. * jc/custom-comment-char: Allow custom "comment char"
2013-01-16Allow custom "comment char"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #, in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise a token of #<bugid> form, for example. The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end users. They have a choice between - Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add. Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g. $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds. [jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*() functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are from Ralf.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10Merge branch 'jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Stop spending cycles to compute information to be placed on commented lines in "merge --no-edit", which will be discarded anyway. * jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit: merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branch
2013-01-09Merge branch 'ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
"git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit status of the hook. t7505 may want a general clean-up but that is a different topic. * ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure: merge: Honor prepare-commit-msg return code
2013-01-03merge: Honor prepare-commit-msg return codeLibravatar Antoine Pelisse1-2/+3
65969d4 (merge: honor prepare-commit-msg hook, 2011-02-14) tried to make "git commit" and "git merge" consistent, because a merge that required user assistance has to be concluded with "git commit", but back then only "git commit" triggered prepare-commit-msg hook. When it added a call to run the prepare-commit-msg hook, however, it forgot to check the exit code from the hook like "git commit" does, and ended up replacing one inconsistency with another. When prepare-commit-msg hook that is run from "git merge" exits with a non-zero status, abort the commit. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
The credit lines "By" and "Via" to credit authors and committers for their contributions on the side branch are meant as a hint to the integrator to decide whom to mention in the log message text. After the integrator saves the message in the editor, they are meant to go away and that is why they are commented out. When a merge is recorded without editing the generated message, however, its contents do not go through the normal stripspace() and these lines are left in the merge. Stop producing them when we know the merge is going to be recorded without editing, i.e. when --no-edit is given. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-29Move try_merge_command and checkout_fast_forward to libgit.aLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-104/+2
These functions are called in sequencer.c, which is part of libgit.a. This makes libgit.a potentially require builtin/merge.c for external git commands. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-09-11Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* tr/void-diff-setup-done: diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-09-07Merge branch 'nd/i18n-parseopt-help'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-24/+24
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h". * nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits) Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action Reduce translations by using same terminologies i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation ...
2012-08-22Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
Remove unnecessary code. * tr/void-diff-setup-done: diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-08-20i18n: merge: mark parseopt strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-24/+24
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-03diff_setup_done(): return voidLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+1
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some did not. Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account. This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error messages that could never be triggered anyway. Note that the function can still die(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-24ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICTLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
Callers who ask for ERROR_ON_NO_NAME are not so much concerned that the name will be blank (because, after all, we will fall back to using the username), but rather it is a check to make sure that low-quality identities do not end up in things like commit messages or emails (whereas it is OK for them to end up in things like reflogs). When future commits add more quality checks on the identity, each of these callers would want to use those checks, too. Rather than modify each of them later to add a new flag, let's refactor the flag. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27Merge branch 'jc/merge-reduce-parents-early'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-54/+88
Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the final commit correctly. By Junio C Hamano (4) and Michał Kiedrowicz (1) * jc/merge-reduce-parents-early: fmt-merge-msg: discard needless merge parents builtin/merge.c: reduce parents early builtin/merge.c: collect other parents early builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variable merge tests: octopus with redundant parents
2012-04-17builtin/merge.c: reduce parents earlyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-25/+40
Instead of waiting until we record the parents of resulting merge, reduce redundant parents (including our HEAD) immediately after reading them. The change to t7602 illustrates the essence of the effect of this change. The octopus merge strategy used to be fed with redundant commits only to discard them as "up-to-date", but we no longer feed such redundant commits to it and the affected test degenerates to a regular two-head merge. And obviously the known-to-be-broken test in t6028 is now fixed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-17builtin/merge.c: collect other parents earlyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+27
Move the code around to populate remoteheads list early in the process before any decision regarding twohead vs octopus and fast-forwardness is made. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-17builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variableLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+28
Instead pass it around starting from the toplevel cmd_merge() as an explicit parameter. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-02Sync with 1.7.9.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+1
2012-03-20merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT supportLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+28
Even though 1.7.9.x series does not open the editor by default when merging in general, it does do so in one occassion: when merging an annotated tag. And worse yet, there is no good way for older scripts to decline this. Backport the support for GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable from 1.7.10 track to help those stuck on 1.7.9.x maintenance track. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06Merge branch 'zj/diff-stat-dyncol'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (8) and Junio C Hamano (1) * zj/diff-stat-dyncol: : This breaks tests. Perhaps it is not worth using the decimal-width stuff : for this series, at least initially. diff --stat: add config option to limit graph width diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph part diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40 diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename part merge --stat: use the full terminal width log --stat: use the full terminal width show --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change counts
2012-03-01diff --stat: add config option to limit graph widthLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+1
Config option diff.statGraphWidth=<width> is equivalent to --stat-graph-width=<width>, except that the config option is ignored by format-patch. For the graph-width limiting to be usable, it should happen 'automatically' once configured, hence the config option. Nevertheless, graph width limiting only makes sense when used on a wide terminal, so it should not influence the output of format-patch, which adheres to the 80-column standard. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01merge --stat: use the full terminal widthLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+1
Make merge --stat behave like diff --stat and use the full terminal width. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-27Merge branch 'tr/merge-edit-guidance' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
* tr/merge-edit-guidance: merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
2012-02-23merge: do not trust fstat(2) too much when checking interactivenessLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The heuristic used by "git merge" to decide if it automatically gives an editor upon clean automerge is to see if the standard input and the standard output is the same device and is a tty, we are in an interactive session. "The same device" test was done by comparing fstat(2) result on the two file descriptors (and they must match), and we asked isatty() only for the standard input (we insist that they are the same device and there is no point asking tty-ness of the standard output). The stat(2) emulation in the Windows port however does not give a usable value in the st_ino field, so even if the standard output is connected to something different from the standard input, "The same device" test may incorrectly return true. To accomodate it, add another isatty() check for the standard output stream as well. Reported-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12Merge branch 'jn/merge-no-edit-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* jn/merge-no-edit-fix: merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag" Conflicts: builtin/merge.c
2012-02-10Merge branch 'jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge: merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
2012-02-09merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
When the user explicitly asked us not to, don't launch an editor. But do everything else the same way as the "edit" case, i.e. leave the comment with verification result in the log template and record the mergesig in the resulting merge commit for later inspection. Based on initiail analysis by Jonathan Nieder. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only optionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Starting at release v1.7.9, if you ask to merge a signed tag, "git merge" always creates a merge commit, even when the tag points at a commit that happens to be a descendant of your current commit. Unfortunately, this interacts rather badly for people who use --ff-only to make sure that their branch is free of local developments. It used to be possible to say: $ git checkout -b frotz v1.7.9~30 $ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9 and expect that the resulting tip of frotz branch matches v1.7.9^0 (aka the commit tagged as v1.7.9), but this fails with the updated Git with: fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting. because a merge that merges v1.7.9 tag to v1.7.9~30 cannot be created by fast forwarding. We could teach users that now they have to do $ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9^0 but it is far more pleasant for users if we DWIMmed this ourselves. When an integrator pulls in a topic from a lieutenant via a signed tag, even when the work done by the lieutenant happens to fast-forward, the integrator wants to have a merge record, so the integrator will not be asking for --ff-only when running "git pull" in such a case. Therefore, this change should not regress the support for the use case v1.7.9 wanted to add. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31Merge branch 'tr/merge-edit-guidance'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
* tr/merge-edit-guidance: merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
2012-01-31Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+34
* jc/pull-signed-tag: merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions Conflicts: Documentation/merge-options.txt
2012-01-31merge: add instructions to the commit message when editingLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+10
Before f824628 (merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions, 2012-01-10), git-merge only started an editor if the user explicitly asked for it with --edit. Thus it seemed unlikely that the user would need extra guidance. After f824628 the _normal_ thing is to start an editor. Give at least an indication of why we are doing it. The sentence about justification is one of the few things about standard git that are not agnostic to the workflow that the user chose. However, f824628 was proposed by Linus specifically to discourage users from merging unrelated upstream progress into topic branches. So we may as well take another step in the same direction. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>