From: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
To: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule merge: update conflict error message
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 11:01:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFySSZBV8r1PuLb7br90VHbHmXgdgW2Ta4qw07BN9SXvh=aFpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kl6l8rq76oub.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>
> The user probably
> wants to merge the submodules, but they can choose however they want to
> resolve the merge conflict
It sounds like I should reword "merge conflicted submodules" to
"resolve conflicted submodules". That should cover those 10% cases.
I would prefer to find a generic, but still helpful message that doesn't
require going into the advice() API or require some config change
On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 10:35 AM Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> wrote:
>
> Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com> writes:
>
> >> Hmph. Is 1. necessary?
> >
> > I just tested it and it is not, so I do agree recommending to abort the
> > merge is unnecessary/bad advice. How does this sound?
> >
> > Failed to merge submodule <submodule>
> > CONFLICT (submodule): Merge conflict in <submodule>
> > Automatic merge failed; recursive merging with submodules is currently
> > not supported. To manually merge, merge conflicted submodules first
> > before merging the superproject.
>
> This message sounds ok to me, since this is probably what the user wants
> 90% of the time. Since we don't abort the merge, this just a 'regular'
> merge conflict resolution (albeit with submodules). The user probably
> wants to merge the submodules, but they can choose however they want to
> resolve the merge conflict, e.g. maybe they'd prefer to just pick one
> side (or even more exotically, a different commit altogether.)
>
> An improvement for that other 10% would be to print this help message
> with the advice() API so that users can turn it off if they don't find
> it helpful. Or maybe it's confusing to some new users who use a
> different merging workflow and so an admin might turn off this advice
> for them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-08 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-06 23:54 [PATCH] submodule merge: update conflict error message Calvin Wan
2022-06-07 0:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-08 17:19 ` Calvin Wan
2022-06-08 17:34 ` Glen Choo
2022-06-08 18:01 ` Calvin Wan [this message]
2022-06-08 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-10 23:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Calvin Wan
2022-06-11 4:53 ` Elijah Newren
2022-06-11 17:08 ` Philippe Blain
2022-06-12 6:56 ` Elijah Newren
2022-06-13 2:03 ` Calvin Wan
2022-06-12 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-13 1:54 ` Calvin Wan
2022-06-29 22:40 ` [PATCH v3] " Calvin Wan
2022-06-30 2:40 ` Elijah Newren
2022-06-30 19:48 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-01 4:27 ` Elijah Newren
2022-06-30 20:35 ` Glen Choo
2022-06-30 20:45 ` Glen Choo
2022-06-30 21:08 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-12 23:19 ` [PATCH v4] " Calvin Wan
2022-07-13 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-17 2:46 ` Elijah Newren
2022-07-15 12:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-07-16 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-17 2:44 ` Elijah Newren
2022-07-18 17:03 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-18 21:43 ` [PATCH v5] " Calvin Wan
2022-07-19 6:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-19 19:30 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-19 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-19 7:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-19 19:07 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-19 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-25 6:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-25 12:11 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-25 22:03 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-25 12:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-25 21:27 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-26 21:00 ` [PATCH v6] " Calvin Wan
2022-07-27 1:13 ` Elijah Newren
2022-07-27 22:00 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-28 0:41 ` Elijah Newren
2022-07-28 19:06 ` Calvin Wan
2022-07-27 9:20 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-28 21:12 ` [PATCH v7] " Calvin Wan
2022-07-28 23:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-29 0:24 ` Elijah Newren
2022-08-01 22:24 ` Calvin Wan
2022-08-01 12:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-02 0:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-02 21:03 ` Calvin Wan
2022-08-02 21:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-02 21:55 ` Calvin Wan
2022-08-02 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-04 19:51 ` [PATCH v8] " Calvin Wan
2022-08-16 15:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-16 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-08-16 19:34 ` Calvin Wan
2022-08-16 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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