From: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:15:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADgNjanavxZfuXgvEAOMzPAJr9YqAvF4+ZDq9KW9aeR_PcVo-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8usxenul.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> But this breaks backward compatibility.
>
> I sometimes run "git reset" during a merge to only reset the index and
> then examine the changes introduced by the merge. With your changes,
> someone doing so would abort the merge and discard the merge resolution.
> I very rarely do this, but even rarely, I wouldn't like Git to start
> droping data silently for me ;-).
I don't think it's actually dropping data though, because your changes just
come from "git merge". So you can also do the merge again.
To examine the changes, you're saying you'd do "git reset && git diff". But
without doing "git reset", couldn't you do "git diff HEAD" to get the diff?
This also has the advantage of keeping git in the merging state, so you can
decide to continue/abort the merge later on.
> I'm not really convinced that this is such a good change, and if we go
> this way, there should be a transition to let users stop using
> argumentless "git reset" to reset the index during a merge.
Yeah, this breaks compatibility, but like I said, during a merge, I don't
see a good reason to do "git reset --mixed", and not "git reset --merge".
Especially when there are local changes, "--mixed" would actually cause
more headaches than "git reset --merge", because you would lose the
distinction between merge changes and unstaged changes.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-26 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 18:06 [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 1/3] wt-status: Make conflict hint message more consistent with other hints Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 23:07 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 2/3] merge: Add hints to tell users about "git merge --abort" Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:16 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 15:30 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 20:51 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 18:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:15 ` Andrew Wong [this message]
2014-02-26 20:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:37 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-27 0:00 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 4:39 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:26 ` [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-28 9:01 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 9:14 ` Charles Bailey
2014-02-28 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 14:13 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 14:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:26 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 17:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-01 10:32 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-01 11:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01 16:50 ` Stephen Leake
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