Re: -s theirs use-case(s) Was: BUG: merge -s theirs is not in effect

From: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2017, 05:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20170927051915.tsxw2zycnjx4dyo4@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzi9h80jp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > and that is where the gotcha comes -- what if "my" changes were already
> > published?  then I would like to avoid the rebase, and would -s theirs
> > to choose "their" solution in favor of mine and be able to push so
> > others could still "fast-forward" to the new state.

> > So -- as to me it remains 'symmetric' ;)

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> I do not necessarily agree.  Once you decide that their history is
> the mainline, you'd rather want to treat your line of development as
> a side branch and make a merge in that direction, i.e. the first
> parent of the resulting merge is a commit on their history and the
> second parent is the last bad one of your history.  So you would end
> up using "checkout their-history && merge -s ours your-history" to
> keep the first-parenthood sensible.

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> And at that point, use of "-s ours" is no longer a workaround for
> lack of "-s theirs".  It is a proper part of the desired semantics,
> i.e. from the point of view of the surviving canonical history line,
> you want to preserve what it did, nullifying what the other line of
> history did.

> So I still do not think the above scenario justifies "-s theirs".

ok, when you describe it like this (in my case I rarely cared about the side of the merge), then indeed I might better do the entire dance with git reset --hard theirstate; git merge -s ours HEAD@{1} and live happily with the left side being the one always correct and hide "my" mistakes ;) will keep it in mind

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