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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] t6038: fix test with obviously incorrect expectations
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:50:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr1snwwx6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHNebxZK1-tXx0HMmPDuRoj=_XWG=pVJ2HCvTkttvA4oQ@mail.gmail.com> (Elijah Newren's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:36:28 -0700")

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'd say that it is probably more intuitive to expect whatever
>> attributes set on the currently checked out and receiving the
>> cherry-picked change would take effect, but I do agree with you that
>> this is not well defined.
> ...
> What if you don't have any version checked out, and are doing a merge
> in a bare-repo or are just redoing a merge (on some other branch)
> without touching the working directory or index just so you can view
> that other merge?

The "receiving" is the keyword in my "I'd say".  Whey you view the
result of merge, the merge may be symmetric, but when initiating a
merge, you have a clear distinction between the target and other: I
am merging these other side branches into this one.

But as I said, I think it is not well defined whose attribute should
be used.  Some might even dream that .gitattributes from the tips
being merged are somehow magically merged first and then the other
paths' merges should use that resulting merged .gitattributes.

> Also, what if you were doing a merge in a dirty working tree, where
> your .gitattributes was locally modified?  Should the local
> .gitattributes file override the .gitattributes file recorded in
> history for how those versions are merged (which seems somewhat
> suggested by your answer)?

Yes, that is quite deliberate outcome from "when doing a merge, the
person who is merging is fully aware into which branch others are
merged into".

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-02  6:33 [PATCH 0/4] Attr fixes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-02  6:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] t6038: make tests fail for the right reason Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-02 18:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-02 19:10   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-03 15:06     ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-02  6:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] t6038: fix test with obviously incorrect expectations Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-02 19:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 15:36     ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-03 15:50       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-02  6:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] merge: make merge.renormalize work for all uses of merge machinery Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-02 19:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 15:07     ` Elijah Newren
2020-08-02  6:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] checkout: support renormalization with checkout -m <paths> Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-03 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Attr fixes Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-03 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t6038: make tests fail for the right reason Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-03 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] t6038: remove problematic test Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-03 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] merge: make merge.renormalize work for all uses of merge machinery Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
2020-08-03 18:41   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] checkout: support renormalization with checkout -m <paths> Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget

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