From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: auto merge bug Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:56:47 +0100 Message-ID: <51365C0F.8070207@op5.se> References: <20130305090326.GC13552@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vtxopvoky.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130305175904.GC9379@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7va9qhu1jk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff King , David Krmpotic , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 05 21:57:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UCyvH-0005or-3q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:57:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757934Ab3CEU4x (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:56:53 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com ([209.85.215.43]:49714 "EHLO mail-la0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757350Ab3CEU4w (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:56:52 -0500 Received: by mail-la0-f43.google.com with SMTP id ek20so6560075lab.2 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:56:50 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=Hid1bYidkQjqQgpkBPzEce9AX9ksuYJuHdp2sokTlqg=; b=myHa7ZpBXwJlf/sGvDmPwHakIXCVZy+kJkaa/F4eO86Uva00yYpth/UyCDmM8FsBjE D7k0djUAsEKM3bLdUJYIeX6Pd+dmaqo7lEO2/EqC3ofK6z9icK3tcu51+RBpe3XwYmXY 4ckv0He3y0z+uB4zl0iy91pyib3nDKKSy4ZmqM9maSyaMJWb5rO8aggIEVSZTELgIrXO 5qUcHILMGv5TbV+tsO7cE7HlunsinCz5EeX+cd+Nq16OgyWdeM5gKwBAUKOZHbGg++HS JCg/X3oJQyUziODHlGvvp4jegrDsvqH4Dbao3JDRnewd4c0ZhoF0jsaO8uHEvLyU9DLL n9LQ== X-Received: by 10.112.88.72 with SMTP id be8mr6637695lbb.116.1362517010471; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from vix.int.op5.se (c80-217-218-226.bredband.comhem.se. [80.217.218.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id iq6sm3575226lab.10.2013.03.05.12.56.48 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:56:49 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <7va9qhu1jk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk2wIIDjoBR9fvXfBgXVUYAkI9OTk475IupAovzve8bMm1W9Vo7YmGplp8k+zPJ74mf/dAq Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/05/2013 07:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > >> I'm also not sure how useful those really are in practice. I have not >> used "union" myself ever. And in the example that started this thread, I >> find the use of "union" slightly dubious. > > Yeah, I do not think anybody sane used "union" outside toy examples. I do, for lists used in tests or to generate perfect hashes from. It's really quite handy for things like that but totally useless for any type of multiline format, or even .ini style files unless you're very, very careful with how you write them. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.