From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Letting tools partially resolve conflicts in a file
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:15:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwnkx9p40.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiSa6iAXAXeDCh_OK=-wLPQiFSWFxRyCSC0SVvTJ8Gp4wdQ7w@mail.gmail.com> (Martin von Zweigbergk's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:03:08 -0800")
Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> writes:
> The solution I had in mind for letting merge tools communicate partial
> resolution was to let them take 3 inputs (as today) and produce 3
> outputs (perhaps by overwriting its 3 inputs). That way they can leave
> conflicts in a conflict-marker-agnostic way. ...
>
> Correct. My team at work hopes to create a language-aware mergetool.
> The "#includes and imports" I mentioned is just one case that such a
> tool could resolve. Hopefully it can also figure out cases like where
> both sides modify an array (on a single line), or where an expression
> is modified on one side and re-wrapped on the other. The thing is that
> it will obviously not be able to handle *all* conflicts, so we want to
> leave remaining conflicts for the user, so that's where this idea
> comes in. I don't foresee having more than one such tool in the chain
> before the user gets involved.
Hmph, OK, so the part I guessed that more than one such tools are
chained together was incorrect. I do not find it too implausible to
wish to first let the "include/import" tool to clean up the fallout
of renaming the include/module files this source depends on, and
then let the "renamed variable" tool to handle the fallout of
renaming a local variable in a file in this source file, in this
order or the other way around. It may be a tall order to write a
tool that can handle *all* coflicts, but it would be a nice future
to see that multiple tools, each of which specializing one corner of
its own, work well together.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-24 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-24 16:31 Letting tools partially resolve conflicts in a file Martin von Zweigbergk
2021-11-24 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-24 22:03 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2021-11-24 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-11-24 22:32 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
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