Re: [PATCH 57/89] sched/headers: Split out of

Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-02-07T08:27:11Z

Hi Ingo,

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > Wondering why Git allowed me to be so stupid with those leftover merge markers.
>> > Git usually doesn't even allow me to commit them so I have these tuned out as a
>> > possibility. This was just a regular git rebase -i flow, to back-merge fixes and
>> > reorder/squash patches - nothing fancy that I remember - only the occasional
>> > --onto option. I'm using Git 2.7.4.
>>
>> Git complains about the merge conflicts, and refuses to commit the result
>> as long as you haven't resolved them, but it will happily commit everything
>> you add using "git add -u", incl. merge markers.
>
> Hm, it should really force that via 'git add -f' or such. The merge markers are
> _very_ infrequent as naturally occuring source code lines even on a per line basis
> - and especially the combination of them should be exceedingly unique.

They were very infrequent, until we switched to RST for documentation,
causing false positives when searching for "^[<=>].*" in vim...

> I frequently use:
>
> git add $(git ls-files -m)

That's identical to "git add -u", right?

> ... to stage edits without comitting them, probably that workflow is what caused
> this bug.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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