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Re: first-class conflicts?

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DSDragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date
Nov 7, 2023, 08:21 UTC
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On 2023-11-07 09:16, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> But we'd also have to be careful and think through usecases, including
> in the surrounding community.  People would probably want to ensure
> that e.g. "Protected" or "Integration" branches don't get accept
> fetches or pushes of conflicted commits, git status would probably
> need some special warnings or notices, git checkout would probably
> benefit from additional warnings/notices checks for those cases, git
> log should probably display conflicted commits differently, we'd need
> to add special handling for higher order conflicts (e.g. a merge with
> conflicts is itself involved in a merge) probably similar to what jj
> has done, and audit a lot of other code paths to see what would be
> needed.
That would be a truly _massive_ project.
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  2. Dragan SimicNov 6, 2023
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  5. Sandra SnanNov 6, 2023
  6. Phillip WoodNov 7, 2023
  7. Sandra SnanNov 7, 2023
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  9. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2023
  10. Sandra SnanNov 11, 2023
  11. Theodore Ts'oNov 12, 2023
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2023
  13. Elijah NewrenNov 7, 2023
  14. Dragan SimicNov 7, 2023
  15. Sandra SnanNov 7, 2023
  16. Phillip WoodNov 7, 2023
  17. Martin von ZweigbergkNov 7, 2023
  18. Elijah NewrenNov 8, 2023
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  20. Elijah NewrenNov 10, 2023
  21. Martin von ZweigbergkNov 12, 2023
  22. phillip.wood123@gmail.comNov 9, 2023
  23. Elijah NewrenNov 8, 2023
  24. Phillip WoodNov 9, 2023
  25. Elijah NewrenNov 10, 2023

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