Re: Re: [WIP PATCH 0/3] implement merge strategy for submodule links

[Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:55:10PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> Am 18.06.2010 11:40, schrieb Johan Herland:
> > On Thursday 17 June 2010, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> >> But I think this approach will solve a lot of the problems we - and maybe
> >> others - have with submodule merges without doing any harm to other
> >> workflows.
> > 
> > For the fast-forward case, I fully agree.
> > 
> > For the non-fast-forward case, I would suggest to search for submodule 
> > merges that contain both submodule commits (as described in [1]), and then:
> > 
> > - If there are no merges, do nothing (leave a conflict).
> > 
> > - If there is exactly one merge, then check it out (but do not record it as 
> > resolved in the index).
> > 
> > - If there are more merge alternatives, present them as equal alternatives, 
> > but do nothing (leave a conflict).
> 
> Nice summary. Heiko, would you please post a new patch implementing this
> approach?

Yes sure. I agree with the proposed scheme.

As Jens is working on the automatically checkout submodules extension I
will base the merge patch on your branch. Is the checkout_submodule()
function already stable enough to be used?

cheers Heiko