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[PATCH 10/14] checkout -m --conflict=diff3: add a label for ancestor

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2010, 00:42 UTC
Message-ID
<20100321004251.GE23888@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To
<20100321002535.GA23681@progeny.tock>

git checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflict hunks including text from the common ancestor. The added information is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and merge tools tend to understand it because it is very similar to what ‘diff3 -m’ produces.

Unlike current git, diff3 -m includes a label for the merge base on the ||||||| line, and unfortunately, some tools cannot parse the conflict hunks without it. Humans can benefit from a cue when learning to interpreting the format, too. Mark the start of the text from the old branch with a label based on the branch’s name.

git rerere does not have trouble parsing this output and its preimage ids are unchanged since it includes its own code for recreating conflict hunks. No other code in git tries to parse conflict hunks.

Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
From <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142374/focus=142384>.
 builtin/checkout.c |    1 +
 t/t7201-co.sh      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index d652b4c..88b1f43 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
 			ret = reset_tree(new->commit->tree, opts, 1);
 			if (ret)
 				return ret;
+			o.ancestor = old->name;
 			o.branch1 = new->name;
 			o.branch2 = "local";
 			merge_trees(&o, new->commit->tree, work,
diff --git a/t/t7201-co.sh b/t/t7201-co.sh
index f3f0c4c..1337fa5 100755
--- a/t/t7201-co.sh
+++ b/t/t7201-co.sh
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 <branch>' '
 	a
 	c
 	e
-	|||||||
+	||||||| master
 	a
 	b
 	c
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  1. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2010
  2. 0/14 jn/merge-diff3-labelJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  3. 01/14 tests: document format of conflicts from checkout -mJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  4. 02/14 tests: document cherry-pick behavior in face of conflictsJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  5. 03/14 xdl_merge(): add optional ancestor label to diff3-style outputJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  6. 04/14 xdl_merge(): move file1 and file2 labels to xmparam structureJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  7. 05/14 merge-file --diff3: add a label for ancestorJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  8. 06/14 ll_merge(): add ancestor label parameter for diff3-style outputJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  9. 07/14 checkout --conflict=diff3: add a label for ancestorJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  10. 08/14 merge_file(): add comment explaining behavior wrt conflict styleJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  11. 09/14 merge_trees(): add ancestor label parameter for diff3-style outputJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  12. 10/14 checkout -m --conflict=diff3: add a label for ancestorJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  13. 11/14 compat: add mempcpy()Jonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  14. 12/14 revert: clarify label on conflict hunksJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  15. 13/14 cherry-pick, revert: add a label for ancestorJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010
  16. 14/14 merge-recursive: add a label for ancestorJonathan Nieder, Mar 21, 2010

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