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From: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:38:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4pcco2ab.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802131014240.2920@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:19:25 -0800 (PST)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> So in that sense, I think both MAINTAINERS and the deprecation schedule 
>> are totally uninteresting. Yes, they have merge conflicts. But those merge 
>> conflicts are really really easy to handle.
>
> That, btw, includes "automatic merges" for something like a Linux-next 
> tree. It's easy to just make something that says: if the merge fails, try 
> to fix up these xyz files by just committing them with merge error markers 
> and all".
>
> That's fine for testing, exactly because it has no coding impact (and then 
> when a _real_ merge happens, you have a human that actually resolves it).
> ...
> Git if nothing if not scriptable, and things like this are *trivial*.

You can also use "union" low-level merge driver for such files
via gitattributes(5).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13  7:02 [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt Greg KH
2008-02-13  7:04 ` David Miller
2008-02-13  7:22   ` Joe Perches
2008-02-13 16:18     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-13 16:59     ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 17:33       ` Joe Perches
2008-02-13 17:47         ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 18:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-13 18:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-13 23:38             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-13 19:32           ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-19 19:07           ` Greg KH
2008-02-19 19:34             ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 19:49               ` Greg KH
2008-02-19 20:06                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-13  7:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-13 10:30 ` [GIT PATCH] " Pekka Pietikainen
2008-02-13 17:00   ` Greg KH
2008-02-13 12:11 ` Jeff Garzik

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