Re: "tla missing -s" equivalent with git/cogito

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jan 18, 2006, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20060118192638.GU28365@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90601181107h57e6fb73peb199689349aec41@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:07:27PM CET, I got a letter where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> said that...

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> On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Now you want to merge the branch as a whole. Cherrypicking-aware VCS
> > would just merge the patch2, but you are taking the whole diff:
> ...
> > And you get a conflict instead of b\nc.
> 
> While I haven't tested your particular example, it looks to me like
> git-cherry would identify it correctly. So far my experience has been
> that git-cherry's strategy detects my cherry-picked patches pretty
> well.
> 
> Why would it not work in your example? Patch 1 has clearly been
> applied in both branches, and git-cherry would normally detect that
> alright.

  It probably would. So? We are talking about git-merge and cg-merge
here. Now, it might be interesting to have a cherry-aware merge
strategy, but I suspect that the conflicts handling there would be quite
non-trivial.

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