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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	 git@vger.kernel.org,  Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH REGRESSION] builtin/rebase: allow user to amend committed conflicts again
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:33:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqik3vc1pc.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24cc4bcc-1d26-46f5-a502-ba673713f4f0@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:22:32 +0100")

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> On 23/09/2026 15:02, Phillip Wood wrote:
>> On 23/09/2026 14:16, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>>> Instead, use the existence of "MERGE_MSG" to figure out whether the user
>>> has already resolved and committed the conflict. It feels somewhat fishy
>>> to base our decisions on the existence of that particular file, as it
>>> really is only a proxy for what we are actually after. 
>> 
>> I think that's probably the best we can do. If, after committing a 
>> conflict resolution from "git rebase", the user runs a merge/cherry- 
>> pick/revert that has conflicts, then "MERGE_MSG" will also exist, but we 
>> don't want them to amend that case either so it should be fine.
>> 
>> The code changes look good,
>
> Let me rephrase that. The code changes look good for "git rebase", but 
> do we have a similar problem with "cherry-pick", "merge" and "revert"?
>
> Thanks

Now, would it be a -rc2 material to just revert the regressing
change out of the release and restart the effort post release?

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-23 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-23 13:16 [PATCH REGRESSION] builtin/rebase: allow user to amend committed conflicts again Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-23 14:02 ` Phillip Wood
2026-09-23 14:22   ` Phillip Wood
2026-09-23 17:33     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-09-23 17:49       ` Elijah Newren
2026-09-24  6:10         ` Johannes Sixt
2026-09-27  8:04           ` Jiang Xin
2026-09-23 17:48 ` Elijah Newren
2026-09-23 17:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-23 18:23   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-23 18:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-23 18:38       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-23 19:11       ` Elijah Newren

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