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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git rerere and diff3
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:05:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1sctl676.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP71WjzHffLRCDbjvF7qpexjXDMFcJkaPpEn=AtbSMCJd6QkBQ@mail.gmail.com> (Nicolas Dechesne's message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:25:28 +0200")

Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> writes:

> i have noticed that merge.conflictstyle has an impact on the rerere
> resolution. looking briefly at the source code, it seems that git
> tries to discard the common ancestor diff3 bits, but what I am seeing
> is that if i do the following then it fails:
>
> 1. from a clean rr-cache state, with merge.conflictsytle=diff3, git
> merge <branch with conflict>, resolve the conflicts, then commit
> 2. undo the previous merge, remove merge.conflictstyle=diff3 (disable
> diff3) and merge the *same* branch, then rerere won't fix the
> conflicts

It is possible that the conflict left when making the same merge are
actually different when using these two conflict styles.  IOW, if
the merge produces

	<<<
	side A
	|||
	common
	===
	side B
	>>>

when diff3 style is chosen, but if the same merge results in

	<<<
	side A'
	===
	side B'
	>>>

where side A' is not identical to side A (or B' and B are not
identical), then we will fail to find the previously recorded
resolution.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-26 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26 13:25 git rerere and diff3 Nicolas Dechesne
2018-06-26 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-06-26 19:37   ` Nicolas Dechesne

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