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From: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] merge-tree: support saving merge messages to a separate file
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 18:22:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220103172255.54psh2e5iqzd37sy@fs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BH4okfDXVC418HwfHVR2_NtbKFBOfyYGZ9mWnABMzSruw@mail.gmail.com>

On 03.01.2022 08:51, Elijah Newren wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 4:31 AM Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 31.12.2021 05:04, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> >From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
[...]
>> >
>> > static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o,
>> >@@ -442,8 +443,15 @@ static int real_merge(struct merge_tree_options *o,
>> >        */
>> >
>> >       merge_incore_recursive(&opt, merge_bases, parent1, parent2, &result);
>> >+
>> >+      if (o->messages_file) {
>> >+              FILE *fp = xfopen(o->messages_file, "w");
>> >+              merge_display_update_messages(&opt, &result, fp);
>> >+              fclose(fp);
>>
>> I don't know enough about how merge-ort works internally, but it looks to me
>> like at this point the merge already happened and we just didn't clean up
>> (finalize) yet. It feels wrong to die() at this point just because we can't
>> open messages_file.
>
>Yes, the merge already happened; there now exists a new toplevel tree
>(that nothing references).  I'm not sure I understand what's wrong
>with die'ing here, though.  I can't tell if you want to defer the
>die-ing until later, or just avoid the die-ing and return some kind of
>success despite failing to complete what the user requested.
>

I think i would prefer the merge operation to abort before actually merging 
when not being able to write its logfile. Otherwise we possibly do a whole 
lot of work that`s inaccessible afterwards isn't it? (since we don`t print 
the hash)

Thanks for your work on this feature. I think this could open a lot of new 
possibilities.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-31  5:03 [PATCH 0/8] RFC: Server side merges (no ref updating, no commit creating, no touching worktree or index) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-31  5:03 ` [PATCH 1/8] merge-tree: rename merge_trees() to trivial_merge_trees() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-31  5:03 ` [PATCH 2/8] merge-tree: move logic for existing merge into new function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-01 20:11   ` Johannes Altmanninger
2022-01-01 20:17     ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-31  5:03 ` [PATCH 3/8] merge-tree: add option parsing and initial shell for real merge function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2021-12-31  5:04 ` [PATCH 4/8] merge-tree: implement real merges Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-01 20:08   ` Johannes Altmanninger
2022-01-01 21:11     ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-03 12:23   ` Fabian Stelzer
2022-01-03 16:37     ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-31  5:04 ` [PATCH 5/8] merge-ort: split out a separate display_update_messages() function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-03 12:15   ` Fabian Stelzer
2022-01-03 12:25     ` Fabian Stelzer
2021-12-31  5:04 ` [PATCH 6/8] merge-ort: allow update messages to be written to different file stream Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-01 20:08   ` Johannes Altmanninger
2022-01-01 20:19     ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-31  5:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] merge-tree: support saving merge messages to a separate file Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-03 12:31   ` Fabian Stelzer
2022-01-03 16:51     ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-03 17:22       ` Fabian Stelzer [this message]
2022-01-03 19:46         ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-04 13:05           ` Fabian Stelzer
2022-01-03 12:35   ` Fabian Stelzer
2022-01-03 16:55     ` Elijah Newren
2021-12-31  5:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] merge-tree: provide an easy way to access which files have conflicts Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] RFC: Server side merges (no ref updating, no commit creating, no touching worktree or index) Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] merge-tree: rename merge_trees() to trivial_merge_trees() Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] merge-tree: move logic for existing merge into new function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] merge-tree: add option parsing and initial shell for real merge function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] merge-tree: implement real merges Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-07 15:30     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-07 17:26       ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-07 18:22         ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-07 19:15           ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-07 20:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-11 13:39           ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-07 18:12     ` Christian Couder
2022-01-07 19:09       ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] merge-ort: split out a separate display_update_messages() function Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] merge-ort: allow update messages to be written to different file stream Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] merge-tree: support saving merge messages to a separate file Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-07 18:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-08  1:02       ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-05 17:27   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] merge-tree: provide an easy way to access which files have conflicts Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2022-01-05 19:09     ` Ramsay Jones
2022-01-05 19:17       ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-07 19:36     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-07 22:12       ` Elijah Newren
2022-02-22 13:03         ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-08  1:28       ` Elijah Newren
2022-02-22 13:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-05 20:18   ` [PATCH v2 0/8] RFC: Server side merges (no ref updating, no commit creating, no touching worktree or index) Junio C Hamano
2022-01-05 22:35     ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-07 18:46   ` Christian Couder
2022-01-07 19:59     ` Elijah Newren
2022-01-07 21:26       ` René Scharfe

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