Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Split fetch and merge logic

From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2007, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160702160040t3f42b5a0xbd12f333805ad4d7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwt2i7bq7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2/16/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This series implements the split of the fetch and merge logic.
>
> That's a description of what it does, but could you describe
> what problem it solves, please?

Sure.

In the past we've had problems when we have changed the merge logic (as shows 4363dfbe3). This patch makes the two process completely independent, and concentrate the merge logic in one place (leaving git-parse-remote.sh independent of the merge logic).

>
> The approach of presentation to introduce the test and showing
> the behavior change in a later patch is very good, though.

Thanks.

Santi