Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #02; Fri, 8)

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> Here is how eventual merge of the topic into 'master' would resolve
>> conflicts.  The straight merge chain from master..seen would have
>> such a merge with the resolution shown below, but 'next' already has
>> a mismerge, so I'll be applying a single-parent commit to fix the
>> mismerge directly on 'next' (which I'll send in a separate message).
> 
> And this is the 'next' mismerge fix.
> 
> ----- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 ----- >8 -----
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix mismerge of ds/maintenance-part-4 topic
> 
> At 1f98c859 (Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-4' into next, 2021-01-08)
> the ds/maintenance-part-4 topic, which had an incorrect invocation
> of internal "git config" when $(pwd) had ERE special characters, was
> merged into the mainline that added "--fixed-value" feature to the
> "git config" command to address this exact issue, and also changed
> how test-tool stubbed out crontab calls.
> 
> The semantic conflicts for the latter have been fully resolved at
> that commit, but four places that "git config" was invoked to look
> for entries with the same value as "$(pwd)" were not adjusted to use
> the "--fixed-value".  They should have been.