Subject: RE: [PATCH v9 5/5] mergetool: add automerge_enabled tool-specific override function

From: Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:01:36 -0600

Seth House wrote:
> Disabling may be desirable if the mergetool wants or needs access to the
> original, unmodified 'LOCAL', 'REMOTE', and 'BASE' versions of the
> conflicted file. For example:
> 
> - A tool may use a custom conflict resolution algorithm and prefer to
>   ignore the results of Git's conflict resolution.

If git's conflict resolution decides there are no conflicts, how would
such tool "ignore" that?

> - A tool may want to visually compare/constrast the version of the file
>   from before the merge (saved to 'LOCAL', 'REMOTE', and 'BASE') with
>   Git's conflict resolution results (saved to 'MERGED').

Can't such tool use "git checkout-index" for that?

> - A student or researcher working on a new algorithm may want to
>   directly compare the result of that algorithm with the result of Git's
>   algorithm.

 1. If git's algorithm decides there are no conflicts, and the new
    algorithm decides there are conflicts, how would such researcher
    find that out?

 2. Can't such researcher simply do:
    git -c mergetool.automerge=false mergetool?

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras