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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Miklos Vajna" <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: avoid using reduce_heads()
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:16:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927001617.GA6941@neumann> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37i8y3mqt.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi all,

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:17:39AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 3. Remove reduce_heads() from git-commit entirely, and record in
>    MERGE_HEAD (or rather now MERGE_HEADS) _all_ _reduced_ heads.
>    _All_ means that HEAD is included in MERGE_HEAD if it is not
>    reduced, _reduced_ means that only non-dependent heads are in
>    MERGE_HEAD.  This for example means that for simple non-octopus
>    merge case MERGE_HEAD/MERGE_HEADS now contain _all_ parents,
>    and not only other side of merge.
> 
>    This solution has the advantage of being clear solution, clarifying
>    semantic of MERGE_HEAD (currently HEAD is used both as target, i.e.
>    where merge is to be recorded, and as one of heads to merge/to
>    consider), and making it possible to separate layers: git-merge
>    is about merging, git-commit doesn't need to know anything about
>    merging.

Well, I'm just following this from the sidelines...  but from design
point of view I would prefer #3 because of the clear separation of
the merge and commit steps.

Best,
Gábor

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-27  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-25 23:50 [BUG] merge --no-ff --no-commit && commit SZEDER Gábor
2008-09-26  0:35 ` [PATCH] builtin-commit: avoid using reduce_heads() Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26  1:03   ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-09-26  6:24     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26 15:15     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26 15:20       ` [PATCH] builtin-commit: avoid always " Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26 15:52         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-26 19:37           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-03  2:35             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-03 12:04               ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-03 14:59                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-05 19:51                   ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-06 14:19                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-03 15:09                 ` [PATCH] builtin-commit: use reduce_heads() only when appropriate SZEDER Gábor
2008-10-05 19:43                   ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26 16:17       ` [PATCH] builtin-commit: avoid using reduce_heads() Jakub Narebski
2008-09-26 19:31         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-26 23:51           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-29 15:07             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-29 18:18               ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-29 18:44                 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-27  0:16         ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]

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