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From: Alireza <rezaxm@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Request for adding a "clean" merge strategy for a double-commit merge to deal with conflicts separately
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:45:24 +0430	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD9n_qh0y84HC6sX1OxXWWv8dDMMA_tPv9zRknePVivQq_rfww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Even though the merge commit's message includes conflicted files by
default, the *resolution* itself is lost, that is, it's hard or
impossible to review how the author *resolved* said conflicts.

The proposal is that an option like `-X clean` would commit a clean
merge and leave out any conflicting hunks in the tree for a follow-up
commit to resolve conflicts.

That would be extremely helpful for a code reviewer to see how a
possibly external contributor has dealt with upstream changes e.g. in
a long-standing branch.

Any comment would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Alireza

             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16 17:15 Alireza [this message]
2020-07-16 17:25 ` Request for adding a "clean" merge strategy for a double-commit merge to deal with conflicts separately Michal Suchánek
2020-07-16 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-21 16:15   ` Alireza
2020-07-21 17:08 ` Elijah Newren
2020-07-21 17:16   ` Alireza
2020-07-21 17:34     ` Elijah Newren
2020-07-21 20:43   ` Junio C Hamano

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