From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:41:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/5] merge-ll: report an error when reading external merge results fails
Message-ID: <20260930224142.GB763270@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8q4ibouf.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 11:01:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Here's a resend of that final patch (not just a squash, because the
> > commit message mentioned the chmod).
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> These 6/5 and 7/5 are probably better squashed into 5/5 than left as
> "oops that was bad, so here is a preliminary clean-up to make the
> fix easier (6/5), and here is the fix of the fifth step (7/5)", no?

I don't think it is the fault of 5/5 at all (which carefully tried to
maintain the NULL behavior). The problem fixed by 7/5 existed before my
series.

In theory that fix _could_ come earlier in the series, but it's actually
much easier to fix after 5/5, because we have a single spot to error
check.

-Peff