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Re: Handling merge conflicts a bit more gracefully..

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 9, 2005, 00:41 UTC
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I do not think you can, unless you are willing to parse shell
> error messages, which I do not want you to be willing to ;-).
Yeah, no. 
> I think you have a bigger problem of leading paths, BTW.

Gotcha. I committed a largely untested fix that hopefully does this all right.

I'm currently using your suggested thing (inside a function), but I think I'll instead make it do

	git-update-cache --add --cacheinfo ... &&
		git-checkout-cache -u -f "$4"
which seems even simpler.
		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 8, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsJun 8, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  14. 0/3 Handling merge conflicts a bit more gracefullyJunio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  15. 1/3 read-tree.c: rename local variables used in 3-way merge code.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  16. 2/3 read-tree -m 3-way: loosen index requirements that is too strict.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  17. 3/3 read-tree -m 3-way: handle more trivial merges internallyJunio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2005
  22. Add git-diff-stages command.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  23. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  24. diff-stages: unuglify the too big main() function.Junio C Hamano, Jun 11, 2005
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2005
  26. Herbert XuJun 18, 2005
  27. Linus TorvaldsJun 18, 2005
  28. Jeff GarzikJun 9, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsJun 9, 2005
  30. read-tree.c: rename local variables used in 3-way merge code.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  31. Handle entry removals during merge correctly.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  32. read-tree -m 3-way: loosen an index requirement that was too strict.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005
  33. read-tree -m 3-way: handle more trivial merges internally.Junio C Hamano, Jun 9, 2005

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