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Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jun 18, 2008, 22:38 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:01:24PM -0700, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As a part of patch series introducing new fast-forward strategies
> (--ff=never, --ff=only) there was patch which did merge reduction
> before selecting merge strategy, by Sverre Hvammen Johansen
>   "[PATCH 4/5] Head reduction before selecting merge strategy"
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80288/focus=80335
> (I'm not sure if the link above is to nevest version of patch series).

Side note: builtin-merge does not have problem with merging 25+ refs even in case every ref contains "new" commits.

The patch by Sverre Hvammen Johansen is useful if some of the refs has no "new" commits, so it will help here, but I think it does not help in all cases.

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Message 28 of 45 in “git-rerere observations and feature suggestions”
  1. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  2. Mike HommeyJun 16, 2008
  3. Pierre HabouzitJun 16, 2008
  4. Pierre HabouzitJun 16, 2008
  5. Sverre RabbelierJun 16, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmJun 17, 2008
  7. David KastrupJun 16, 2008
  8. Theodore TsoJun 16, 2008
  9. David KastrupJun 16, 2008
  10. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  12. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  15. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  17. 1/5 rerere: rerere_created_at() and has_resolution() abstractionJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  18. 2/5 git-rerere: detect unparsable conflictsJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  19. 3/5 rerere: remove dubious "tail_optimization"Junio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  20. 4/5 t4200: fix rerere testJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  21. 5/5 rerere.autoupdateJunio C Hamano, Jun 22, 2008
  22. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  23. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  24. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  25. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  26. Ingo MolnarJun 18, 2008
  27. Jakub NarebskiJun 18, 2008
  28. Miklos VajnaJun 18, 2008
  29. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  30. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  31. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2008
  32. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  33. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  34. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  35. Miklos VajnaJun 19, 2008
  36. Karl HasselströmJun 19, 2008
  37. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2008
  38. Ingo MolnarJun 16, 2008
  39. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  40. Peter ZijlstraJun 23, 2008
  41. Peter ZijlstraJun 23, 2008
  42. Jeff KingJun 23, 2008
  43. Ingo MolnarJun 23, 2008
  44. Jakub NarebskiJun 16, 2008
  45. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008

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