Re: [PATCH 9/9] rerere forget path: forget recorded resolution

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> After you find out an earlier resolution you told rerere to use was a
>> mismerge, there is no easy way to clear it.  A new subcommand "forget" can
>> be used to tell git to forget a recorded resolution, so that you can redo
>> the merge from scratch.
>> ...
>> diff --git a/rerere.c b/rerere.c
>> index f013ae7..c1da6f6 100644
>> --- a/rerere.c
>> +++ b/rerere.c
>> ...
>> +static int handle_cache(const char *path, unsigned char *sha1)
>> +{
>> +...
>> +	ll_merge(&result, path, &mmfile[0],
>> +		 &mmfile[1], "ours",
>> +		 &mmfile[2], "theirs", 0);
>
> When you simply call ll_merge(), will it obey any merge drivers that
> are defined in .gitattributes? Do we care about them?
>
> I already had an implementation of "rerere forget" before you
> presented this solution, but it relies on that the user calls
> "checkout --conflict=merge" first. One reason (besides its simplicity)
> was that it does not have to care how the merge is computed.

> [I haven't submitted my solution, yet, because I haven't had the time
> to do this large merge where I expect to make use "rerere forget",
> testing its usefulness.]
>
> -- Hannes