From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] merge -Xindex-only
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:08:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v1gey16.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DBDB6F.7090105@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:44:15 +0200")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Since you've already implemented a way to merge into the index (even an
> alternative index) without touching the working copy, I'll just cross my
> fingers and hope for the appearance of an option that makes merge leave
> HEAD, MERGE_HEAD, etc. untouched.
The most annoying part is probably where to put the output, since
merging is more or less defined to do one of:
- update HEAD and return 0
- update MERGE_HEAD and return 1
I'm not sure how much flexibility is worth having. Would it be
sufficient if you had an option, e.g. -Xresult-ref=refs/heads/foo, that
changes it to:
- update refs/heads/foo and return 0
- return 1, not updating any refs
That would mean that it would only work for noninteractive use. In the
conflicting case, the driving script would need to remember what it
wanted to merge so as have the information when finally committing.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-07 18:02 [PATCH 0/3] merge -Xindex-only Thomas Rast
2013-07-07 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] merge-recursive: remove dead conditional in update_stages() Thomas Rast
2013-07-07 18:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] merge-recursive: untangle double meaning of o->call_depth Thomas Rast
2013-07-07 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-07 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] merge-recursive: -Xindex-only to leave worktree unchanged Thomas Rast
2013-07-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] merge -Xindex-only Michael Haggerty
2013-07-08 15:44 ` Thomas Rast
2013-07-09 9:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-07-09 12:08 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-07-09 19:38 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-07-09 20:01 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-26 14:40 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-26 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] merge-recursive: remove dead conditional in update_stages() Thomas Rast
2013-10-26 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] merge-recursive: internal flag to avoid touching the worktree Thomas Rast
2013-10-26 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] merge-recursive: -Xindex-only to leave worktree unchanged Thomas Rast
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