From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, szeder.dev@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Fix scissors bug during merge conflict
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:05:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqin0n44dv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181122011055.GA1584@archbookpro.localdomain> (Denton Liu's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:10:55 -0500")
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> I just realised that there is a slight problem with the proposed change.
> When we do a merge and there are no merge conflicts, at the end of the
> merge, we get dropped into an editor with this text:
>
> Merge branch 'master' into new
>
> # Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary,
> # especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch.
> #
> # Lines starting with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts
> # the commit.
>
> Note that in git-merge, the cleanup only removes commented lines and
> this cannot be configured to be scissors or whatever else. I think that
> the fact that it's not configurable isn't a problem; most hardcore
> commit message editing happens in git-commit anyway.
OK.
> However, since we taught git-merge the --cleanup option, this might be
> misleading for the end-user since they would expect the MERGE_MSG to be
> cleaned up as specified.
>
> I see two resolutions for this. We can either rename --cleanup more
> precisely so users won't be confused (perhaps something like
> --merge-conflict-scissors but a lot more snappy) or we can actually make
> git-merge respect the cleanup option and post-process the message
> according to the specified cleanup rule.
The former certainly would be simpler to implement, but feels more
like an excuse for not doing the right thing to me, when I put
myself in shoes of users who use 'scissors' clean-up option in
commit. I dunno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-24 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-14 5:24 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix scissors bug during merge conflict Denton Liu
2018-11-14 5:24 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] commit: don't add scissors line if one exists Denton Liu
2018-11-14 8:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-14 18:06 ` Denton Liu
2018-11-16 3:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-14 5:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2018-11-14 7:52 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix scissors bug during " Junio C Hamano
2018-11-14 8:10 ` Denton Liu
2018-11-16 15:19 ` [PATCH v2 " Denton Liu
2018-11-16 15:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] merge: add scissors line on " Denton Liu
2018-11-17 23:32 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Fix scissors bug during " Denton Liu
2018-11-17 23:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] merge: add scissors line on " Denton Liu
2018-11-18 14:18 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-18 6:54 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Fix scissors bug during " Junio C Hamano
2018-11-21 3:13 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Denton Liu
2018-11-21 3:13 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] t7600: clean up 'merge --squash c3 with c7' test Denton Liu
2018-11-21 3:13 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2018-11-21 9:38 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] Fix scissors bug during " Junio C Hamano
2018-11-22 1:10 ` Denton Liu
2018-11-24 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-12-25 13:55 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] Add git-merge --cleanup support Denton Liu
2018-12-25 13:55 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Denton Liu
2018-12-25 13:56 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] t7600: clean up 'merge --squash c3 with c7' test Denton Liu
2018-12-25 13:56 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] merge: cleanup messages like commit Denton Liu
2018-12-25 13:56 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-01-23 5:06 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] Add git-merge --cleanup support Denton Liu
2019-01-23 5:06 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Denton Liu
2019-01-23 5:06 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] t7600: clean up 'merge --squash c3 with c7' test Denton Liu
2019-01-23 5:06 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] merge: cleanup messages like commit Denton Liu
2019-01-23 5:06 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 0/8] Fix scissors bug during conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] t7600: clean up 'merge --squash c3 with c7' test Denton Liu
2019-03-12 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] t3507: cleanup space after redirection operators Denton Liu
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Denton Liu
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] sequencer.c: remove duplicate code Denton Liu
2019-03-11 16:45 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] merge: cleanup messages like commit Denton Liu
2019-03-11 5:49 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-11 10:14 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-11 17:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-11 16:58 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-12 5:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-11 5:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] sequencer.c: define get_config_from_cleanup Denton Liu
2019-03-11 6:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-12 6:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-11 3:42 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-12 11:11 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-11 6:44 ` [PATCH v7 0/8] Fix scissors bug during conflict Junio C Hamano
2019-03-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v8 00/11] " Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v8 01/11] t7600: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v8 02/11] t3507: cleanup space after redirection operators Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v8 03/11] t7604: refactor out Git commands upstream of pipe Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 04/11] t7502: clean up test style Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 05/11] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 06/11] parse-options.h: extract common --cleanup option Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 07/11] sequencer.c: remove duplicate code Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 08/11] merge: cleanup messages like commit Denton Liu
2019-03-19 11:13 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-20 6:32 ` Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 09/11] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 10/11] sequencer.c: define describe_cleanup_mode Denton Liu
2019-03-18 20:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-18 20:30 ` Denton Liu
2019-03-18 20:32 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-19 0:55 ` Ramsay Jones
2019-03-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v8 11/11] cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-17 13:05 ` [PATCH v8 00/11] Fix scissors bug during conflict SZEDER Gábor
2019-03-18 3:02 ` Denton Liu
2019-03-18 6:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-18 8:03 ` Denton Liu
2019-03-18 8:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 " Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 01/11] t7600: clean up style Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 02/11] t3507: " Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 03/11] t7604: " Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 04/11] t7502: " Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 05/11] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 06/11] parse-options.h: extract common --cleanup option Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 07/11] sequencer.c: remove duplicate code Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:44 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 08/11] merge: cleanup messages like commit Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:53 ` [PATCH v9 09/11] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:54 ` [PATCH v9 10/11] sequencer.c: define describe_cleanup_mode Denton Liu
2019-03-21 6:54 ` [PATCH v9 11/11] cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict Denton Liu
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 00/10] Fix scissors bug during conflict Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 01/10] t7600: clean up style Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 02/10] t3507: " Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 03/10] t7604: " Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 04/10] t7502: " Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 05/10] commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 06/10] parse-options.h: extract common --cleanup option Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 07/10] merge: cleanup messages like commit Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 08/10] merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 09/10] sequencer.c: save and restore cleanup mode Phillip Wood
2019-04-17 17:02 ` Denton Liu
2019-04-17 19:53 ` Phillip Wood
2019-04-18 17:21 ` Denton Liu
2019-04-17 10:23 ` [PATCH v10 10/10] cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict Phillip Wood
2019-04-18 5:19 ` [PATCH v10 00/10] Fix scissors bug during conflict Junio C Hamano
2019-04-18 9:14 ` Phillip Wood
[not found] ` <cover.1542380865.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
2018-11-16 15:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] commit: don't add scissors line if one exists in MERGE_MSG Denton Liu
2018-11-17 8:06 ` Junio C Hamano
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