Fossil SCM
Small tweaks to previous
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| 850 | 850 | discrepancy. |
| 851 | 851 | |
| 852 | 852 | You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and |
| 853 | 853 | the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`. |
| 854 | 854 | As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to |
| 855 | -while writing this reply and finding that it didn’t do what I expected. | |
| 856 | -None of the answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option. This is | |
| 855 | +while writing this case study and finding that the command didn’t do what the SO answer claimed it did. | |
| 856 | +None of the other answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option, either. This is | |
| 857 | 857 | one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them |
| 858 | 858 | around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so |
| 859 | 859 | errors propagate. |
| 860 | 860 | |
| 861 | 861 | But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler |
| 862 | 862 |
| --- www/gitusers.md | |
| +++ www/gitusers.md | |
| @@ -850,12 +850,12 @@ | |
| 850 | discrepancy. |
| 851 | |
| 852 | You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and |
| 853 | the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`. |
| 854 | As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to |
| 855 | while writing this reply and finding that it didn’t do what I expected. |
| 856 | None of the answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option. This is |
| 857 | one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them |
| 858 | around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so |
| 859 | errors propagate. |
| 860 | |
| 861 | But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler |
| 862 |
| --- www/gitusers.md | |
| +++ www/gitusers.md | |
| @@ -850,12 +850,12 @@ | |
| 850 | discrepancy. |
| 851 | |
| 852 | You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and |
| 853 | the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`. |
| 854 | As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to |
| 855 | while writing this case study and finding that the command didn’t do what the SO answer claimed it did. |
| 856 | None of the other answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option, either. This is |
| 857 | one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them |
| 858 | around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so |
| 859 | errors propagate. |
| 860 | |
| 861 | But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler |
| 862 |