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From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Opinions on changing add/add conflict resolution?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:08:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE1pOi3jbLyZ7zgCO5J_BrQurrxZvm5RH+ZjXTTBf4MMmVOduA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180312213521.GB58506@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting.  I would be tempted to resolve this inconsistency the
> other way: by doing a half-hearted two-way merge (e.g. by picking one
> of the two versions of the colliding file) and marking the path as
> conflicted in the index.  That way it's more similar to edit/edit,
> too.

If work is going to be done in this area, would it be possible to
include making auto-merging (in general) optional? Preferably,
configurable by file (or glob) but I'd already be happy with a global
setting to opt out.

I keep running into bugs caused by Git's automatic merging. (And I
don't see how this could be improved without teaching Git the
specifics of various file types.) It's especially hard when rebasing
large numbers of commits. The bug is introduced early on but I will
not notice anything is wrong until late in the rebase.

(Since I seem to keep asking for things that turn out to already have
been implemented ... if this is already possible please just point me
to the right setting and consider me a happy camper. :-) )

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-12 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 18:32 Opinions on changing add/add conflict resolution? Elijah Newren
2018-03-12 18:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-03-12 21:26   ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-12 21:35     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-03-12 23:08       ` Hilco Wijbenga [this message]
2018-03-12 23:14         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-03-13  0:38       ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 17:22         ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13  5:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13 18:21       ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 22:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13 22:42           ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 22:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13 23:04               ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 22:56             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-03-13 23:14               ` Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 23:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-12 22:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
     [not found]   ` <CABPp-BHDOimDoLxWxS=BDOBkm6CUTrXTzD16=TSkWGN-HOiU2g@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-13  2:53     ` Fwd: " Elijah Newren
2018-03-13 22:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13  9:59     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-13 17:09       ` Elijah Newren

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