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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] improving advice message from "git commit" during a merge
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:28:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwapd96c.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140827191857.GB7561@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:18:58 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

>>  - When all the unmerged paths have their conflicts resolved in the
>>    working tree, we do not have to say "Fix them up in the work
>>    tree,".  We can instead say "You seem to have fixed them up in
>>    the work tree already," or something.
>
> How are you determining what has been resolved? By looking for "<<<<<<<"
> markers? That feels a little flaky, but I guess it would probably work
> well enough in practice.

I was going to say "whatever rerere does" by reusing whatever it has
already implemented.

> If we started using that heuristic, it would probably make sense to
> teach "git status" about it (and then maybe just have a failed "commit"
> rely on wt_status to produce the output).
>
>> I am not doing this myself soon, though.  Hint, hint...
>
> Me either, though it all seems like a sensible direction to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-27 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27 18:23 [RFC] improving advice message from "git commit" during a merge Junio C Hamano
2014-08-27 19:18 ` Jeff King
2014-08-27 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-08-28  9:46 ` [PATCH] merge, pull: stop advising 'commit -a' in case of conflict Matthieu Moy
2014-08-28 17:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-28 17:41     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-28 18:16   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-28 18:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29  6:44       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-28 12:17 ` [RFC] improving advice message from "git commit" during a merge Stefan Beller
2014-08-28 17:11   ` Junio C Hamano

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