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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-mergetool to run an appropriate merge conflict resolution program
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:20:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329142044.GH2913@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabxwbszq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 08:58:49PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I had a chance to use git-mergetool in real life for the first
> time today, when I merged 'maint' into 'master'.  It has a
> symlink vs symlink conflict, so I got something like this:
> 
> A few observations.
> 
> (1) Saying "a" <Return> does not let me exit.  It keeps asking
>     the same question.

Yeah, I fixed that last night, along with a bunch of other git
mergetool cleanups.  I was about to request you to do a pull when I
noticed your e-mail. 

> (2) The word "symlink" might be less geekish if worded "symbolic
>     link".
> 
> (3) The message look very long, and repeats the same information.
> 
> (4) The status info gives local and then remote, but the choice
>     is between remote and local.
> 
> The attached is a minimum fix for the above issues, but not for
> immediate application, as I am sure the rewording would make
> messages inconsistent with other cases.  

OK, let me fix up the display and try to clean up the other messages.
I agree that your output looks much nicer.

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06  5:07 [PATCH] Add git-mergetool to run an appropriate merge conflict resolution program Theodore Ts'o
2007-03-06  5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-06 12:40   ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-06 22:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-06 23:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-29  3:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-29 14:20   ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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