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Re: How to exchange rerere/redo resolutions?

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
May 10, 2019, 15:10 UTC
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Hi Torsten,
On 10/05/2019 15:05, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
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> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 12:23:28AM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a mechanism for exchanging the rerere resolutions, so that future
>> fixups, e.g. future clashes on pu rather than master, can be sent with patch
>> series?
>>
>> My current use case that there is a large patch [1] for updating long to
>> size_t for use on Windows, which notes that it will have clashes with pu,
>> but doesn't appear to have any method  of sending a rerere resolution (which
>> the author is already aware of) to the list. Being able to flag up such
>> fixes should simplify such conflict resolutions.
>>
>> I had some very rough ideas about how the resolutions should look rather
>> similar to three-way conflict markers, with the resolution as the 'base'
>> (between the ||| - ||| marks), which would be resolved via a --base merge
>> strategy.
>>
>> However if there is already a method for exchanging resolutions, where
>> should I look?
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> [1] <20190413151850.29037-1-tboegi@web.de> [PATCH v3 1/1] Use size_t instead
>> of 'unsigned long' for data in memory
>>
>> --
>> Philip
>>
> That is not an answer to the question.
> If it helps, I can rebase the first patch onto git.git/master, and the
> cherry-pick the next patches. That can happen next week or so.
> And then let it go through the normal pu->next->master->git-for-windows workflow.
>

Thanks for the offer, but I should be OK. dscho has already asked that for testing on Git for Windows I rebase my series back onto master, rather than pu. The series is at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2179#issuecomment-491095412 -- Philip

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  1. Philip OakleyMay 9, 2019
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 9, 2019
  3. Philip OakleyMay 10, 2019
  4. Philip OakleyMay 13, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2019
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 14, 2019
  7. Philip OakleyMay 14, 2019
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2019
  9. Torsten BögershausenMay 10, 2019
  10. Philip OakleyMay 10, 2019

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