Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 17, 2008, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806171122130.6439@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080616110113.GA22945@elte.hu>

Hi,

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

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>  - Sharing .git/rr-cache. It's quite a PITA to share the .git/rr-cache 
>    amongst -tip maintainers right now. It seems to have dependencies on 
>    the index file, so if we want to share the conflict resolution data, 
>    we have to copy our index file (which is dangerous anyway and assumes 
>    very similar repositories).

I was dreaming about having "git rerere infer-from <merge-commit>". This would be

- more versatile, as you do not have to ask the guy to share the cache,

- would avoid transmitting lots of data that can be inferred from the 
  data,

- would avoid relying on the honesty of the person sharing the cache, and

- it would put all license wieners^Wissues at rest.

FWIW this is in my TODO list, but I am unlikely to get to it, least of all before 1.5.6 comes out.

Ciao, Dscho