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Re: merge-one-file: use common as base, instead of emptiness.

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 10, 2005, 20:35 UTC
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Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:30:55PM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > But obviously now the trouble is opposite, when the files are completely
> > unrelated, since now you likely get large conflicting areas interleaved
> > with some scarce common lines... And this might get to be a big PITA to
> > resolve as well.
> 
> Yeah, you can always count lines in $orig and $src2 after
> two-file merge runs, and if it appears we do not have enough
> common section just empty the $orig before running merge.

Reasonable solution, I like that. Let's say 50%, like for the renames detection?

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Message 7 of 28 in “Re: Expected Behavior?”
  1. Jon LoeligerNov 8, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2005
  3. Petr BaudisNov 8, 2005
  4. merge-one-file: use common as base, instead of emptiness.Junio C Hamano, Nov 10, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  8. Fredrik KuivinenNov 8, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2005
  10. Fredrik KuivinenNov 8, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2005
  12. Fredrik KuivinenNov 9, 2005
  13. merge-recursive: Fix support for branch names containing slashesFredrik Kuivinen, Nov 9, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  16. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  17. Petr BaudisNov 9, 2005
  18. Martin LanghoffNov 9, 2005
  19. Petr BaudisNov 9, 2005
  20. Martin LanghoffNov 9, 2005
  21. Petr BaudisNov 9, 2005
  22. Martin LanghoffNov 10, 2005
  23. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  24. Martin LanghoffNov 10, 2005
  25. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2005
  27. Petr BaudisNov 9, 2005
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005

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