Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/4] Add git-sequencer shell prototype

[Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>]

Hi again,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > I'd not check in sequencer for the strategy.  Especially given that we 
> > > want to support user-written strategies in the future.
> > 
> > I don't know how this is planned to look like, but perhaps 
> > --list-strategies may make sense here, too.

Funny, a merge with an unknown merge strategy acts somehow like my
proposed --list-strategies (at least on git-merge.sh, haven't checked
on builtin-merge)
But that is just a silly side note.

> No.  You just do not check for strategies.  Period.

Well, I've seen that my strategy_check (which is now removed) only
produces a warning, so it had no big effect at all.
So I've tested merge --strategy=hours (to simulate a typo):

-- -- snip paste -- --
Testing:
        git sequencer todotest1

available strategies are: recur recursive octopus resolve stupid ours subtree
Error merging
* FAIL 33: merge multiple branches and --reuse-commit works
-- -- snap paste -- --

That means, with the information that can be seen, a user should easily be
able to fix that, i.e. run git-sequencer --edit and fix the line.

So I accept your period sign now ;-)

> and you can easily abort a rebase if you explicitely asked for an invalid 
> strategy.

Aborting after fixing a lot of conflicts in the sequencer process is
really annoying.  So I've chosen to never abort automatically.
(That was one of the first things that I changed after I first used my
own sequencer for real work and not only test cases.)

Regards,
  Stephan

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