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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make cherry-pick use rerere for conflict resolution.
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy732ra5t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080812023411.GA14831@toroid.org

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> writes:

> At 2008-08-11 11:47:01 -0700, gitster@pobox.com wrote:
>>
>> I do not think that story is a good example.
>
> I agree, it's a stretch.
>
> I can't think of any better rationale for the change than "It might
> conceivably be convenient to someone at some point", which falls a
> fair bit short of being convincing.
>
> To be honest, it took so little time to implement this suggestion that
> I didn't realise until later that there was no realistic use-case and
> nothing to say about the patch.

Oh, that's Ok.  I think my "cherry-picking from devel to maint1 and then
cherry-picking the same change to maint2" example already shows the
potential usefulness of the patch.  Yes, cherry-picking the change from
maint1 would avoid conflicts, but we do not _have to_ force the user to
think about it.  If the user somehow chose to cherry-pick from devel to
maint2, it is certainly better if we allowed the earlier resolution
applied.

In any case, thanks for the patch --- queued in 'pu' for now.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-10 11:48 [PATCH] Make cherry-pick use rerere for conflict resolution Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-08-10 23:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11  2:30   ` [PATCH v2] " Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-08-11 10:19     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 10:40       ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-11 11:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 11:49           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-11 15:54             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-12  7:02               ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-11 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-12  2:34       ` Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-08-12  6:59         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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