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Re: [RFH] Merge driver

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 13, 2005, 20:46 UTC
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Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:
> Thinking a bit more about it, maybe it's better to use a temporary
> index file. If go this way we could, at least in principle, allow
> merges which starts with a dirty working directory.

Yeah, I like the idea of using temporary index for doing merges that are not what the user wanted to do. The same idea is used in the 'stupid' thing that tries to find the least-conflicting merge base.

Previous: Fredrik Kuivinen
Message 40 of 40 in “A new merge algorithm, take 3”
  1. 0/2 A new merge algorithm, take 3Fredrik Kuivinen, Sep 7, 2005
  2. 1/2 Add '-i' flag to read-tree to make it ignore whats in the working directory.Fredrik Kuivinen, Sep 7, 2005
  3. Unified merge driver pushed out to "master" branchJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2005
  4. Fredrik KuivinenSep 11, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  6. Another merge test case from the kernel tree.Junio C Hamano, Sep 14, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowSep 14, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2005
  9. Fredrik KuivinenSep 14, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2005
  11. Yet another set of merge test cases from the kernel tree.Junio C Hamano, Sep 15, 2005
  12. Fredrik KuivinenSep 19, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  14. Fredrik KuivinenSep 20, 2005
  15. 2/2 A new merge algorithmFredrik Kuivinen, Sep 7, 2005
  16. Daniel BarkalowSep 7, 2005
  17. Fredrik KuivinenSep 8, 2005
  18. Daniel BarkalowSep 8, 2005
  19. Fredrik KuivinenSep 8, 2005
  20. Daniel BarkalowSep 8, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  23. A Large Angry SCMSep 8, 2005
  24. Chuck LeverSep 8, 2005
  25. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsSep 8, 2005
  27. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  28. Chuck LeverSep 8, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsSep 8, 2005
  30. Chuck LeverSep 8, 2005
  31. Linus TorvaldsSep 8, 2005
  32. [RFH] Merge driverJunio C Hamano, Sep 9, 2005
  33. Daniel BarkalowSep 9, 2005
  34. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2005
  35. Daniel BarkalowSep 9, 2005
  36. [RFH] Merge driverJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2005
  37. Fredrik KuivinenSep 12, 2005
  38. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  39. Fredrik KuivinenSep 13, 2005
  40. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005

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