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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Perrin Meyer <perrinmeyer@yahoo.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix read-tree merging more than 3 trees using 3-way merge
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:14:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbqd6j4a0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708161750550.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:59:18 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Sorry. I didn't even realize people did this. Oops.

This is no big deal.  It would have triggered if you are using
resolve strategy _and_ did a multi merge-base merge, the former
of which is quite unusual these days.

> What *is* the behaviour for four trees? Reading "unpack_trees()" source 
> implies that all other trees go into stage 1, where the first matching 
> entry is used?

Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt describes this under
three-way case.  Essentially this was an attempt to extend the
original merge-resolve so that it would catch problematic
criss-cross cases (case #16 in the description).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-17  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 21:19 1.5.3-rc5 regression on OS X? Perrin Meyer
2007-08-15 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-15 21:43 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-08-15 22:14 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-08-15 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-15 22:46 ` [PATCH] Fix read-tree merging more than 3 trees using 3-way merge Junio C Hamano
2007-08-17  0:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-17  2:14     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-08-17  2:32       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-17  3:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-17  3:44           ` Linus Torvalds

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