Subject: Re: Command-line interface thoughts

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:30:43 +0200

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 11:06 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > THEIRS -- equivalent to the tree from MERGE_HEAD
> 
> Except there might be any number of THEIRS in the case of an octopus
> merge. The most common case is just one though.

Not really, the current implementation bails out and tells you not to
use an octopus:

  Trying simple merge with t/man-unquote-apos-3
  Simple merge did not work, trying automatic merge.
  Auto-merging Documentation/Makefile
  ERROR: content conflict in Documentation/Makefile
  Auto-merging Makefile
  fatal: merge program failed
  Automated merge did not work.
  Should not be doing an Octopus.
  Merge with strategy octopus failed.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch