From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge & sequencer: turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:22:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141028222238.GC20722@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027211441.GH5500@google.com>
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:14:42PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:
>
> > For the most part, combined-diff (and --cc) will show the interesting
> > cases anyway. But if you take a whole file from one side of the merge,
> > then there is nothing interesting for diff to show. Do people still want
> > to get that more complete list of potentially interesting files? And if
> > so, how do they do it? I think there really isn't a great way besides
> > repeating the merge.
>
> If you have time to experiment with tr/remerge-diff from pu[1], that
> would be welcome.
Thanks, that was the topic I was thinking of.
It's not very often that I want to carefully investigate merge commits
(usually it is when I am trying to help somebody track the addition or
deletion of content that came as part of an evil merge), but I'll give
it a try next time it comes up.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 18:27 [PATCH] builtin/merge.c: drop a parameter that is never used Junio C Hamano
2014-10-24 19:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-10-24 21:22 ` [PATCH] merge & sequencer: unify codepaths that write "Conflicts:" hint Junio C Hamano
2014-10-24 21:24 ` [PATCH] merge & sequencer: turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment Junio C Hamano
2014-10-26 18:59 ` Jeff King
2014-10-27 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-27 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-28 22:21 ` Jeff King
2014-10-28 6:51 ` Christian Couder
2014-10-27 21:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-10-28 22:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-10-28 21:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Turning Conflicts: hint into comment Junio C Hamano
2014-10-28 21:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] builtin/merge.c: drop a parameter that is never used Junio C Hamano
2014-10-28 21:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] merge & sequencer: unify codepaths that write "Conflicts:" hint Junio C Hamano
2014-10-28 21:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] builtin/commit.c: extract ignore_non_trailer() helper function Junio C Hamano
2014-10-28 21:36 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] merge & sequencer: turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment Junio C Hamano
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