Re: Minor off-by-one in the Book (merging -r406:HEAD should be r405:HEAD)

I still would argue that it is easy enough for a newbie to commit an
off-by-one error with regards to revision numbers that it is worthwhile
to be absolutely correct in the documentation, even if the less accurate
value still "works".

  - Nathan

Julian Foad wrote:

>
> You are right that any changes made in r406 will not be included in
> the second merge, but in this particular example r406 was the merge of
> branch changes into the trunk, so r406 did not make any changes to the
> branch itself, so it is perfectly OK.
>
> - Julian

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Received on Fri May 28 16:13:02 2004