Julia Evans on Nostr: npub1g4mt9…7zxup interesting, how are empty "merge" commits useful? To me the weird ...
npub1g4mt97vx7cz267yf7cncc2zs7p6my6yt6kg6heyuc6qpqamtvw2qg7zxup (npub1g4m…zxup) interesting, how are empty "merge" commits useful?
To me the weird thing about merge commits is that merge commits are not actually empty (they're snapshots, just like any other commit), it's just that because they have 2 parents they have 2 different diffs, so `git show` shows them as empty because it doesn't know what diff to show you
To me the weird thing about merge commits is that merge commits are not actually empty (they're snapshots, just like any other commit), it's just that because they have 2 parents they have 2 different diffs, so `git show` shows them as empty because it doesn't know what diff to show you