Mike Hommey wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>> Each root tree can only ever belong to a single commit, unless you
>> intentionally force git to make completely empty commits. git
>> won't complain about this, so long as you don't make two in the
>> same second, because it relies more heavily on the DAG than on
>> developer sanity.
> 
> Actually, you don't need to be insane to have multiple commits pointing
> at the same root tree. It is actually very easy:
> - git clone
> - do some stuff on your master branch and commit
> - send your changes upstream
> - upstream applies as is
> - git pull
> 
> You now have everything merged, and the last commit on your master branch,
> while being a different commit object due to its parenting, has the same
> root tree as the tip of the remote branch.
> 

That explains why it felt so awkward writing that sentence. :)
Thanks for correcting me. Even so, one more M<->M relation-ship
certainly speaks for rather than against the current model.

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