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[PATCH] Move 'stupid' merge strategy to contrib.

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 5, 2008, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID
<1215291607-20781-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<1215269031-19559-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org>

As pointed out by Linus, this strategy tries to take the best merge base, but 'recursive' just does it better. If one needs something more than 'resolve' then he/she should really use 'recursive' and not 'stupid'.

Given that it may still serve as a good example, don't remove it, just move it to contrib/examples. ---

n Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:43:51PM +0200, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> Here is one.
Oops, I forgot -M with format-patch.
 .gitignore                                         |    1 -
 Makefile                                           |    3 +--
 .../examples/git-merge-stupid.sh                   |    0
 3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 rename git-merge-stupid.sh => contrib/examples/git-merge-stupid.sh (100%)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4ff2fec..8054d9d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ git-merge-one-file
 git-merge-ours
 git-merge-recursive
 git-merge-resolve
-git-merge-stupid
 git-merge-subtree
 git-mergetool
 git-mktag
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 78e08d3..bddd1a7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@ SCRIPT_SH += git-merge-octopus.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-merge-one-file.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-merge-resolve.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-merge.sh
-SCRIPT_SH += git-merge-stupid.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-mergetool.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-parse-remote.sh
 SCRIPT_SH += git-pull.sh
@@ -1429,7 +1428,7 @@ check-docs::
 	do \
 		case "$$v" in \
 		git-merge-octopus | git-merge-ours | git-merge-recursive | \
-		git-merge-resolve | git-merge-stupid | git-merge-subtree | \
+		git-merge-resolve | git-merge-subtree | \
 		git-fsck-objects | git-init-db | \
 		git-?*--?* ) continue ;; \
 		esac ; \
diff --git a/git-merge-stupid.sh b/contrib/examples/git-merge-stupid.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from git-merge-stupid.sh
rename to contrib/examples/git-merge-stupid.sh
-- 
1.5.6.1.322.ge904b.dirty
Previous: Miklos Vajna
Message 7 of 7 in “Question about git-merge-stupid”
  1. Miklos VajnaJul 3, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2008
  3. Remove 'stupid' merge strategy.Miklos Vajna, Jul 3, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2008
  5. Miklos VajnaJul 4, 2008
  6. Move 'stupid' merge strategy to contrib.Miklos Vajna, Jul 5, 2008
  7. Move 'stupid' merge strategy to contrib.Miklos Vajna, Jul 5, 2008

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