Re: Stacked GIT 0.3 (now more Quilt-like)

[Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>]

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thanks for trying this tool.
> 
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 10:38 +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> > This is good stuff and the 3-way merge really simplifies things.
> > However, if there is a merge conflict, you will basically be stuck
> > with a 2-way merge when resolving manually. It's usually much easier
> > if you can see all three version, so I think it's better to use -A
> > instead of -E in the diff3 command.
> 
> I know that using -A gives a more detailed output in case of a conflict.
> The problem is that you will get a conflict even if the changes are
> identical, making it impossible to detect when a patch was merged
> upstream.

OK, I see. How about using wiggle instead?

        http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle/

That's what patch-utils uses if you run "pushpatch -m". wiggle is also
a lot smarter than diff3, so there will be fewer cases that result in
a conflict. Maybe a parameter to "stg push" could enable wiggle mode.

Another nice thing from patch-utils is that if applying the patch
would have failed, nothing will be done by "pushpatch". You then have
the option to rerun it with -m (merge) or -f (force, create .rej
files), or decide that you don't want to push the patch at all. The
last part is quite useful if you try to reorder a patch series, find
out that you would get a thousand conflicts, and want to reconsider.

Is there a way in StGIT to undo a push that results in a large mess of
conflicts?

> Speaking of detecting upstream merges, the latest StGIT snapshot shows a
> '0' in front of a patch if it is empty, when 'stg series' is invoked.
> When pushing, if all the changes are the same, it notifies you that the
> patch is empty so that it can be safely removed.

That's a useful feature. With patch-utils, I used to drop patches
manually, but that could lose information if the patch applied
upstream is not exactly the same as the one I had locally.

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Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
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