bug#2988: 23.0.92; Document 'ancestor' in ediff info

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:10:33 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
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> The concept 'ancestor' in ediff info is undocumented. My suspicion is
> that it might be an outdated concept and there is a modern replacement.

AFAIK, it's not outdated.  It's simply tied to the notion of 3-way diff,
which you apparently don't know about.


        Stefan

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