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From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule merge support
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 00:16:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070506221621.GH30511@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070506220745.GA2439@steel.home>

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hoi :)

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:07:45AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> Martin Waitz, Sun, May 06, 2007 21:02:24 +0200:
> > When merge-recursive gets to a dirlink, it starts an automatic
> > submodule merge and then uses the resulting merge commit for the
> > top-level tree.
> 
> merge-recursive is a mess already, you just made even more so.
> Besides, you completely forgot all other merge strategies.
> 
> How about making all existing strategies just ignore submodules, and
> move recursive merge in the merge driver (git-merge.sh)?

Well, I don't think it can be done in the merge driver but it does make
sense to consolidate all the low-level file-based merging (and the new
submodule merge is exactly that) between merge strategies.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-06 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 19:02 [PATCH] submodule merge support Martin Waitz
2007-05-06 22:07 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-06 22:16   ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2007-05-06 22:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-07  9:03     ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-07 10:30       ` Johannes Sixt
2007-05-07 16:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-07 16:44           ` Martin Waitz
     [not found]             ` <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705070959060.3802@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]               ` <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705071015230.3802@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 19:33                 ` Martin Waitz
2007-05-07 16:37         ` Martin Waitz

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