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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Stefan Frühwirth" <stefan.fruehwirth@uni-graz.at>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: whither merge-tree?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:18:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160223071812.GD8395@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3g42atl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:35:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I stopped short of dropping the create_virtual_base function in the
> > first patch, for reasons explained there. But if we were to do so, I
> > suspect we could deprecated and eventually drop "apply --no-add", too.
> 
> Thanks.  I think the "virtual" stuff started its life outside
> sh-setup but later was moved there for p4merge.  The log message for
> 4549162e (mergetools/p4merge: create a base if none available,
> 2013-03-13) seems to indicate that using an empty file does not work
> well over there as you suspected, so unfortunately we cannot lose it
> just yet.

Oh, indeed. I did find that commit in my git-blaming, but failed to
actually read it carefully. :)

With that, yeah, I agree that we cannot drop the virtual-base thing, and
my 3 patches are fine as-is.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-17 22:34 What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #05; Wed, 17) Junio C Hamano
2016-02-17 23:25 ` Jeff King
2016-02-18 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-22 22:12 ` whither merge-tree? (was: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #05; Wed, 17)) Jeff King
2016-02-22 22:45   ` whither merge-tree? Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23  5:02     ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  5:14       ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:03         ` Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:04           ` [PATCH 1/3] merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:06           ` [PATCH 2/3] merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:07           ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON Jeff King
2016-02-23  6:35           ` whither merge-tree? Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23  7:18             ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-02-23  9:49       ` Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-24  7:28         ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-02-24  7:57           ` Jeff King
2016-02-24  7:58         ` Jeff King
2016-02-23 12:36       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-23 12:41         ` Duy Nguyen

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