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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Cc: "Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@gmail.com>,
	"Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more merge strategies : feature request
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:15:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabbc7kk5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081204062717.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> (Nanako Shiraishi's message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:27:17 +0900")

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

> Isn't what Caleb wants "-X ours/theirs" per-hunk option for merge strategy backends?
>
> It was discussed several months ago on the list and was rejected.  For details you can start here:
>
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89010/focus=89021
>
> I still think the patch in the above link was reasonable, but the thread
> was distracted into discussing minor syntactical details of how the
> option gets passed to the backend, and the rest of the discussion to
> decide if it makes sense to add such a feature was unfortunately lost in
> the noise and never concluded.

I thought http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89033 in
the thread (and your response to it which is 89175) pretty much concluded
the discussion.  Is Caleb adding anything new to the discussion (iow, is
there a convincing new argument why having such a merge is a good idea and
what the workflow looks like that benefits from it)?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-29 16:48 more merge strategies : feature request Caleb Cushing
2008-12-01  9:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-12-02  2:38   ` Caleb Cushing
2008-12-02  3:30     ` Jeff King
2008-12-02 14:28       ` Caleb Cushing
2008-12-02 15:30         ` Jeff King
2008-12-02  2:49   ` Leo Razoumov
2008-12-02 13:46     ` Caleb Cushing
2008-12-03  1:07       ` Leo Razoumov
2008-12-03 21:27       ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-03 22:59         ` Caleb Cushing
2008-12-04  2:15         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-12-04 10:11       ` Nanako Shiraishi

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