From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] checkout -m: recreate conflict labels
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:40:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmrsy8ocd.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <223c99ea-64d9-46da-9631-ed8035f1a062@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:24:33 +0200")
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> Am 30.09.26 um 11:48 schrieb Phillip Wood:
>> When "git checkout -m <path>" recreates a merge conflict, it uses
>> the labels "base", "ours", "theirs", rather than the labels used by
>> the original merge. This short series teaches the ort machinery to
>> write the labels to ".git/MERGE_LABELS" when it switches to a merge
>> result containing conflicts, so that "git checkout -m" can then read
>> that file and use the same labels.
>
> Would an index extension not be a better place to store auxiliary
> information about merges?
Wow. MERGE_HEAD, CHERRY_PICK_HEAD, and all others replaced with
index extensions? That would unclutter $GIT_DIR/ quite a lot (for
some reason, I find ORIG_HEAD is a bit of eyesore). It makes the
information less accessible, so I am not sure how I feel about the
proposal, but it is an interesting thought.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 9:48 [PATCH 0/2] checkout -m: recreate conflict labels Phillip Wood
2026-09-30 9:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] remove_branch_state: convert boolean argument to flags Phillip Wood
2026-09-30 9:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] merge: remember conflict labels Phillip Wood
2026-09-30 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-01 8:54 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-01 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-30 20:24 ` [PATCH 0/2] checkout -m: recreate " Johannes Sixt
2026-09-30 20:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-09-30 21:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-10-01 8:45 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 " Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] remove_branch_state: convert boolean argument to flags Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] merge: remember conflict labels Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-06 15:21 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-06 15:05 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-06 15:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-07 13:38 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] checkout -m: recreate " Johannes Sixt
2026-10-05 15:09 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-05 15:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v3 " Phillip Wood
2026-10-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] remove_branch_state: convert boolean argument to flags Phillip Wood
2026-10-09 9:13 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] merge: remember conflict labels Phillip Wood
2026-10-10 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-09 20:31 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] checkout -m: recreate " Junio C Hamano
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