From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merge with git-pasky II.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:36:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050415093649.GA28077@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113556448.12012.269.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> Consider a simple repository which contains two files A and B. We
> start off with the first version of each ('A1B1'), and the owner of
> each file takes a branch and modifies their own file. There is
> cross-pulling between the two, and then each modifies the _other's_
> file as well as their own...
>
> (A1B2)--(A2B2)--(A2'B3)
> / \ / \
> / \ / \
> (A1B1) X (...)
> \ / \ /
> \ / \ /
> (A2B1)--(A2B2)--(A3B2')
>
> Now, we're trying to merge the two branches. It appears that the most
> useful common ancestor to use for a three-way merge of file A is the
> version from tree 'A2B1', while the most useful common ancestor for
> merging file B is that in 'A1B2'.
do such cases occur frequently? In the kernel at least it's not too
typical. Would it be a problem to go for the simple solution of using
(A1B1) as the common ancestor (based on the tree graph), and then to do
a 3-way merge of all changes from that point on?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 148+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 0:29 Merge with git-pasky II Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 21:25 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 0:45 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 22:00 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 3:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 1:23 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 5:03 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-14 2:16 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 6:16 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-14 7:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 8:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 8:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 9:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 11:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 12:16 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 20:20 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 2:33 ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-15 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 16:01 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 16:31 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-15 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 15:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-04-17 13:14 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 19:20 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-16 1:44 ` Simon Fowler
2005-04-16 12:19 ` David Lang
2005-04-16 15:55 ` Simon Fowler
2005-04-16 16:03 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 16:26 ` Simon Fowler
2005-04-16 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 23:02 ` David Lang
2005-04-17 14:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-17 15:08 ` Brad Roberts
2005-04-17 15:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-17 15:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-17 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 22:12 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-17 22:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 23:29 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-17 23:34 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 23:53 ` Kenneth Johansson
2005-04-18 0:49 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-18 0:55 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18 4:16 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2005-04-18 7:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-16 20:29 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2005-04-16 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 2:21 ` [Patch] ls-tree enhancements Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 16:13 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 9:14 ` Merge with git-pasky II David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-04-15 10:05 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 14:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-15 15:09 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-04-15 10:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-15 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 15:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-15 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 15:54 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-15 16:30 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-15 18:29 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-14 18:51 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 19:35 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 20:01 ` Live Merging from remote repositories Barry Silverman
2005-04-14 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 1:07 ` Question about git process model Barry Silverman
2005-04-14 20:23 ` Re: Merge with git-pasky II Erik van Konijnenburg
2005-04-14 20:24 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 23:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 20:24 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 23:31 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 20:30 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 20:37 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14 20:50 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-15 0:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-14 22:30 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-15 7:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 6:28 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-15 11:11 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7vaco0i3t9.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-04-15 18:44 ` write-tree is pasky-0.4 Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 18:56 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 22:36 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 1:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 2:49 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 3:56 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 6:59 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-16 15:34 ` Re: Re: " Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 20:58 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-15 21:22 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 23:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 21:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-trees script for Linus git Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 23:33 ` [PATCH 3/2] " Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 1:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 4:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 5:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 6:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 8:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 9:27 ` [PATCH] Byteorder fix for read-tree, new -m semantics version Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 10:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add --stage to show-files for new stage dircache Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 14:03 ` Issues with higher-order stages in dircache Junio C Hamano
2005-04-17 5:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-17 5:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-17 10:00 ` Summary of "read-tree -m O A B" mechanism Junio C Hamano
2005-04-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 3/2] merge-trees script for Linus git Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 19:54 ` Re: Merge with git-pasky II Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 10:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 20:40 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-15 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-15 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 0:30 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 22:11 ` git merge Petr Baudis
[not found] <000d01c541ed$32241fd0$6400a8c0@gandalf>
2005-04-15 20:31 ` Merge with git-pasky II Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15 23:00 ` Barry Silverman
2005-04-16 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-26 18:55 Bram Cohen
2005-04-26 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26 20:30 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-26 20:31 ` Bram Cohen
2005-04-26 20:39 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-26 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26 21:28 ` Bram Cohen
2005-04-26 21:36 ` Fabian Franz
2005-04-26 22:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-28 0:42 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-26 21:26 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-26 20:31 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-26 20:44 ` Tom Lord
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