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Re: Collaborative conflict resolution feature request

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CECurtin, Eric <eric.curtin@dell.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2020, 09:28 UTC
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> An aside that probably would not directly help Eric, but I know the
> above workflow helps reasonably well.  The 'pu' branch is rebuilt
> not on top of 'next', but is rebuilt with all topics (including
> those already in 'next') in flight directly on top of 'master',
> which serves as a way to anticipate conflicts that will require
> resolution in the future before the topics can enter 'next' branch.

Out of all the currently available options this solution helps. Thanks Junio! I played with incremental merge techniques this weekend. One problem with incrementally merging is that you start fixing conflicts that are later invalidated by subsequent commits. So it seems you end up doing more conflict resolution than necessary. Unless I'm misusing the technique.

I think in order to create collaborative distributed conflict resolution, you'd probably need a new type of commit a "partial-merge" commit, that is like a pseudo-commit that you can push and doesn't break builds. It would be a neat feature, at least for my team!

Regards,
Eric Curtin
Software Engineer

Ovens Campus, Cork, Ireland

Dell EMC
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  1. Curtin, EricJun 12, 2020
  2. Johannes SixtJun 13, 2020
  3. Christian CouderJun 13, 2020
  4. Curtin, EricJun 13, 2020
  5. Philip OakleyJun 13, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2020
  7. Sergey OrganovJun 15, 2020
  8. Philip OakleyJun 15, 2020
  9. Stefan MochJun 16, 2020
  10. Curtin, EricJun 17, 2020
  11. Sergey OrganovJun 17, 2020
  12. Christian CouderJun 13, 2020
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2020
  15. Philip OakleyJun 14, 2020
  16. Konstantin TokarevJun 14, 2020
  17. Curtin, EricJun 15, 2020
  18. Philip OakleyJun 15, 2020
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2020
  20. Chris TorekJun 15, 2020
  21. Chris TorekJun 16, 2020
  22. Philip OakleyJun 15, 2020
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2020
  24. demerphqJun 18, 2020
  25. Curtin, EricJun 18, 2020
  26. Curtin, EricJun 18, 2020
  27. demerphqJun 18, 2020
  28. Curtin, EricJun 19, 2020
  29. Christian CouderJun 20, 2020
  30. Curtin, EricJun 21, 2020
  31. Christian CouderJun 16, 2020
  32. Sergey OrganovJun 15, 2020

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