From: punk.lion0906@fastmail.com
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Documentation bug (?) when describing `zdiff3` merge format
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:22:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab0fcc2e-936f-4d76-8059-fb2bc8a4f661@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
The docs at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge#_how_conflicts_are_presented describe the following snippets in `diff3` and `zdiff3` style as equivalent. They do not seem equivalent to me, so either this is a mistake or the `zdiff3` style is counterintuitive needs a better explanation.
diff3 style:
```
Here are lines that are either unchanged from the common
ancestor, or cleanly resolved because only one side changed,
<<<<<<< yours:sample.txt
or cleanly resolved because both sides changed the same way.
Conflict resolution is hard;
let's go shopping.
||||||| base:sample.txt
or cleanly resolved because both sides changed identically.
Conflict resolution is hard.
=======
or cleanly resolved because both sides changed the same way.
Git makes conflict resolution easy.
>>>>>>> theirs:sample.txt
And here is another line that is cleanly resolved or unmodified.
```
zdiff3 style:
```
Here are lines that are either unchanged from the common
ancestor, or cleanly resolved because only one side changed,
or cleanly resolved because both sides changed the same way.
<<<<<<< yours:sample.txt
Conflict resolution is hard;
let's go shopping.
||||||| base:sample.txt
or cleanly resolved because both sides changed identically.
Conflict resolution is hard.
=======
Git makes conflict resolution easy.
>>>>>>> theirs:sample.txt
And here is another line that is cleanly resolved or unmodified.
```
The problem is that, I believe, the "or cleanly resolved because both sides changed identically." sentence should not be part of the **base** in the latter example, since that whole line was moved outside the conflict.
I'd appreciate knowing which it is.
Thanks,
Ilya
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2024-08-08 1:22 punk.lion0906 [this message]
2024-08-08 6:49 ` Documentation bug (?) when describing `zdiff3` merge format Johannes Sixt
2024-08-08 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-08-08 17:22 ` Kyle Lippincott
2024-08-08 20:25 ` punk.lion0906
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