From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rerere.autoupdate that wouldn't
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:51:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A898A.2060701@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd38l4cl5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Writ Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
> Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> writes:
>
>> Is this what is supposed to happen? Should I look into adding
>> 'rerere.autoContinue=true'?
>
> "Yes", and "Perhaps, but there may be a better alternative".
>
> Whatever rerere did, "git merge", "git am", and friends should
> report the fact that the result is not just a trivial conflict-free
> merge, so that the user can take an appropriate action. Otherwise
> you will be robbing the last chance to eyeball the result from
> people who have been using rerere.autoupdate=true and doing so
> before committing.
>
> And a better alternative to make "rerere.autoupdate" stronger may be
> to make the variable tri-valued, instead of adding a new variable
> that does not make any sense when rerere.autoupdate is not set.
Any preference on the third option-name?
I think 'False || True || Continue'
Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 22:52 UTC|newest]
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2012-03-09 22:34 rerere.autoupdate that wouldn't Phil Hord
2012-03-09 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-09 22:51 ` Phil Hord [this message]
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