Re: [RFC] Merge strategy 'applyreject'

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:17PM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> said that...
> >> Create merge strategy 'applyreject'.
> >> 
> >> The applyreject merge strategy is a two head merge strategy which performs
> >> the merge by obtaining the diff between the common base and the branch
> >> being merged and applies it to the current branch using git-apply --reject.
> >> Consequently any failures are written to .rej files, rather than using
> >> the RCS <<<<<<< ======= >>>>>>> format.
> >
> > So, it's essentially the same as the classic resolve strategy, just
> > handling rejects differently? I think that should be more obvious from
> > its name, perhaps resolve-rej?
> >
> > .rej files, what a nuisance to handle those... :)
> 
> You were who asked for "apply --reject", weren't you?
> 
> I am not interested in this merge strategy myself.  Having said
> that, if it is cleanly done, I do not have much objection adding
> it for other people's use, at least in principle.

I'll clean it up, document it and and resubmit the patch if others
want it as a top-level merge strategy.

But I don't really want this as a merge strategy in its own right.
I want it as part of merge-recur, so I can drop into my .git/config
file:

	[merge-recursive]
		conflictFormat = rejects

(for example) and not deal with the RCS merge program.  This however
will require some hacking in merge-recursive.c and apply.c but I
think its workable.

-- 
Shawn.