Re: libreoffice merge issue ...

[Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Michael Meeks
<michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> We are having quite some fun merging git branches with LibreOffice, and
> I stumbled over this just now with master git with hash:
> 00e6ee724640701b32aca27cc930fd6409c87ae2
>
> Setup (some large repos):
>
>        git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-core
>        git checkout integration/dev300_m98
>        git remote add stage git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/staging/@REPO@

correction: this should read
        git remote add stage
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/staging/libs-core

or you should use ./g instead of git for all these 3 git operations

Norbert


>        git fetch stage
>
>        Test[1]:
>
>        git merge stage/premerge/dev300_m98
>        git diff idl/source/cmptools/lex.cxx
>
>        yields:
>
> @@@ -147,11 -147,7 +147,15 @@@ SvToken & SvToken::operator = ( const S
>  *************************************************************************/
>  void SvTokenStream::InitCtor()
>  {
> ++<<<<<<< HEAD
>  +#ifdef DOS
>  +    SetCharSet( CHARSET_ANSI );
>  +#else
>      SetCharSet( gsl_getSystemTextEncoding() );
>  +#endif
> ++=======
> ++    SetCharSet( gsl_getSystemTextEncoding() );
> ++>>>>>>> stage/premerge/dev300_m98
>      aStrTrue  = "TRUE";
>      aStrFalse = "FALSE";
>      nLine       = nColumn = 0;
>
>        With the above master hash; whereas with v1.7.3.4 it yields nothing (as
> it should IMHO) - we havn't edited things around that chunk in master.
>
>        That is slightly concerning; thoughts much appreciated. Incidentally,
> the whole 'make install' installs into ~/bin was extremely unexpected
> and yielded 30minutes of pain trying to work out what was installed
> where and why, and the interaction with --prefix, and ... now it seems I
> should always run rehash; git --version before any command, and sanity
> check things ;-)
>
>        Thanks,
>
>                Michael.
>
> [1] - potentially you need:
> [merge]
>    renamelimit = 20000
> in your ~/.gitconfig
> --
>  michael.meeks@novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>
>