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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium•org>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:06:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlk9had5v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101105318.GA4744@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:53:18 +0100")

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium•org> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:15:27PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com> writes:
>> 
>> > BTW, you have workaround for git-merge also? It uses cpio to save/restore state.
>> 
>> Why do people want "workaround"?  Is installing cpio such a
>> hassle?
>
> Note that to do what git-merge does with cpio, i wonder if it wouldn't
> be sensible to use git stash, now.

Like this?  That's an excellent suggestion.

The patch uses the 'git stash create' which is in 'next'
(jc/stash-create topic).

Having said that, the savestate()/restorestate() codepaths are
only relevant to the "try multiple strategies and pick the best
one" feature of git-merge, and that is where cpio is used (and
the patch rewrites it to use stash).  I am not sure if anybody
ever used it in practice.  I admit I am guilty of inventing it,
but I certainly do not.

It might make sense to remove that try-multiple-strategies
feature from git-merge and be done with it.  It would certainly
make the eventual rewrite to C much easier.

---
 git-merge.sh |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-merge.sh b/git-merge.sh
index 3a01db0..e8916cc 100755
--- a/git-merge.sh
+++ b/git-merge.sh
@@ -28,20 +28,19 @@ allow_trivial_merge=t
 
 dropsave() {
 	rm -f -- "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG" \
-		 "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE" || exit 1
+		 "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_STASH" || exit 1
 }
 
 savestate() {
 	# Stash away any local modifications.
-	git diff-index -z --name-only $head |
-	cpio -0 -o >"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE"
+	git stash create >"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_STASH"
 }
 
 restorestate() {
-        if test -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE"
+        if test -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_STASH"
 	then
 		git reset --hard $head >/dev/null
-		cpio -iuv <"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE"
+		git stash apply --index $(cat "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_STASH")
 		git update-index --refresh >/dev/null
 	fi
 }
@@ -386,7 +385,7 @@ case "$use_strategies" in
     single_strategy=no
     ;;
 *)
-    rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE"
+    rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_STASH"
     single_strategy=yes
     ;;
 esac

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 20:05 [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed Mike Hommey
2007-10-31 20:10 ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-31 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-31 23:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-01  0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-01  1:00   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-01  1:05   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-01  1:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  6:31   ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 13:06   ` Alexander Skwar
2007-11-01  1:09 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-01  1:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  1:25     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-01  6:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01 10:53     ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 21:06       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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