Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: >> > + test_cmp_rev :1:a $A_OBJ && >> > + test_cmp_rev :2:a $B_OBJ && >> > + test_cmp_rev :3:a $C_OBJ && >> > + git checkout -f topic && >> > + test_cmp_rev :a $A_OBJ >> >> So in short, "checkout -f" should have given us an entry for path >> "a", taken from the tip of the 'topic' branch, at stage #0 while >> switching to that branch, but it didn't? That would be a nice >> summary to have at the beginning of the log message before going >> into the implementation detail of how that happens. > > OK. And the last line probably should be :0:a to make it clear we're > looking for stage #0.
I would say ":a" is plenty clear that it is looking for a merged entry without getting replaced with an overly explicit ":0:a", but ":0:a" would not hurt, either.
