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From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Improving merge failure message
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:12:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090908191237.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7veiqhgb4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>

> Notable points are:
>
>  - End the messages with "Aborting."; they are given when the three-way
>    merge stops without harming the work tree;
>
>  - Do not give the extra message after unpack_trees() already errored out.
>    This "merging of trees failed" message was primarily for debugging
>    merge-recursive itself, and the end user cannot do much with the object
>    names given in the message anyway.
>
>    But do give it under higher verbosity level, or when it happens during
>    the inner merge (the "recursive" one), as unpack_trees() should not
>    fail for the inner merge under normal conditions.
>
> We could later add instructions on how to recover (i.e. "stash changes
> away or commit on a side branch and retry") instead of the silent
> exit(128) I have down there, and then use Peff's advice.* mechanism to
> squelch it (e.g. "advice.mergeindirtytree"), but they are separate topics.

Thank you for a quick response. The patch works fine here, so if you want
please add:

Tested-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit•com>

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08  6:31 Improving merge failure message Nanako Shiraishi
2009-09-08  6:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  7:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  7:20     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-08  7:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  7:51         ` Jeff King
2009-09-08  7:59         ` Mike Ralphson
2009-09-08 16:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-08  9:11     ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-08 10:12     ` Nanako Shiraishi [this message]
2009-09-08  8:24   ` Johannes Sixt

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