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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange merge conflicts against earlier merge.
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:32:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051111173239.GU16061@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64qzozyx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:29:10PM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
>  - The above turned out to have a risky corner case, especially
>    when one side reverted a patch and the other one did not.  To
>    address this, read-tree was rewritten and 3-way form of
>    read-tree can take more than three trees these days, letting
>    you feed it all the merge base candidates.  This code is used
>    in 'resolve' strategy.

Yes, but what I didn't find out is whether the additional trees result
in additional stages, what are the trivial merging rules, how does it
play together with git-merge-index, etc. Doesn't seem to be documented
either.

Thanks,

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which
it doesn't.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10  0:38 Strange merge conflicts against earlier merge Martin Langhoff
2005-11-10 10:20 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-11  4:40   ` Martin Langhoff
2005-11-11 11:35     ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-11  7:52 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2005-11-11 11:45   ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-11 13:12     ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-11 17:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 17:32       ` Petr Baudis [this message]
     [not found]         ` <7v1x1nni78.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-11-11 21:56           ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-11 22:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 23:33               ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-12  0:50                 ` Junio C Hamano

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