On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Also ORIG_HEAD is probably redundant. After a successful
> automerge, the same information can be had by HEAD^1
Absolutely not.
You forgot about one of the most common merge cases: fast-forward.
In fact, ORIG_HEAD is _the_ most common head I use explicitly. Almost all
operations take HEAD as default, but doing a
gitk ORIG_HEAD..
is extremely useful after a pull.
Linus
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