Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: Demonstrate known breakage during recursive merge

From: Brad King <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:02:03 -0400

On 8/24/2011 3:14 PM, Heiko Voigt wrote:
 > thanks for finding this subtle bug!

Thanks for looking at it!

On 8/24/2011 3:46 PM, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> For the merge search we do not take the bases into
> account so the outcome will not change.

The test case creates history like this:

 >     b---bc
 >    / \ /
 >   o   X
 >    \ / \
 >     c---cb

where b, c, bc, and cb all reference different submodule commits.

Isn't the merge search asked to search for a descendant of "b:sub" and "c:sub"
during the recursive part of the merge and then "bc:sub" and "cb:sub" during
the primary merge?  Might those results be different?

As for the UI part, I think the user would be interested only in the search
results for the primary merge between HEAD and MERGE_HEAD.  Results from the
intermediate merges might not make sense.

Thanks,
-Brad