From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:21:20 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612292219280.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612291853210.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > * jc/3way (Wed Nov 29 18:53:13 2006 -0800) 1 commit
> >  + git-merge: preserve and merge local changes when doing fast
> >    forward
> 
> I'd like this, but behind a command line switch. And in addition to saying 
> "cannot merge, blabla needs update", git could spit out "if you want to 
> risk a 3way merge, go ahead and add the --preserve-local flag to 
> git-merge".
> 
> Comments?

Is there really a point for not always doing it?

IOW, if you really want a command line switch, maybe it should be used 
to prevent the above not to allow it?


Nicolas