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Re: [PATCH] Automerge fix

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 19, 2005, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504181945400.15725@ppc970.osdl.org>
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<20050419010242.GS5554@pasky.ji.cz>
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> this patch fixes git-merge-one-file-script's automerge.

Nope, it doesn't. The original may not have worked, but neither does your vesion either: the reason for the exit 1 is that the _script_ should exit, but when you put it in a sub-shell with (..), now only the subshell exits with an error code, and we'll happily continue to do the following line which we should not do (since the merge failed).

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> Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
> 
> git-merge-one-file-script: 7ebf5dac4c69043cd2ff89bf7ee552152802f8d1
> --- a/git-merge-one-file-script
> +++ b/git-merge-one-file-script
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ case "${1:-.}${2:-.}${3:-.}" in
>  	orig=$(unpack-file $1)
>  	src1=$(unpack-file $2)
>  	src2=$(unpack-file $3)
> -	merge "$src2" "$orig" "$src1" || echo Leaving conflict merge in $src2 && exit 1
> +	merge "$src2" "$orig" "$src1" || (echo Leaving conflict merge in $src2 && exit 1)
>  	cp "$src2" "$4" && update-cache --add -- "$4" && exit 0
What's the right way?
Maybe
	if merge "$src2" "$orig" "$src1"
	then 
		cp "$src2" "$4" && update-cache --add -- "$4" && exit 0
	fi
	echo Leaving conflict merge in $src2
	exit 1
would work?
		Linus
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