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From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
To: Alireza <rezaxm@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for adding a "one-shot" rebase strategy where conflicts are only resolved once
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:15:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2ae51a2-95e9-43d4-beba-774d05bfc3e9@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD9n_qgBPDQKF=ZEQ6SWvDCmcUXZvz33zSoHFQSwHmQPWS4z_Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, at 21:06, Alireza wrote:
> Sometimes a clean merge is possible but with a rebase, in-between
> commits may raise conflicts in which case a conflict must be resolved
> for each commit individually, which is not quite productive and at the
> end wouldn't add so much in how the resulting history looks like.
>
> With a "one-shot" rebase, a conflict (if any) is made based on the
> latest revision, then in-between commits approximated based on that
> resolution. This way the history can be roughly preserved with the
> same amount of effort while still using a rebase rather than merge.

How would this compare to using git-rerere(1)?

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-03 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-03 19:06 Request for adding a "one-shot" rebase strategy where conflicts are only resolved once Alireza
2024-10-03 20:15 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2024-10-03 21:10   ` Alireza
2024-10-03 21:30 ` Jeff King
2024-10-03 21:30 ` brian m. carlson

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