Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT

From: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date: Mar 11, 2009, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903111401520.16753@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903112136560.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> there are two types of helpers that can be written
>>
>> 1. a low-level part that does the simple merges automaticaly and leaves
>>    behind appropriate conflict markers when it can't
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> 2. after a conflict has taken place, a helper to work with the user to
>>    resolve the conflict
>
> I thought that from my description on the wiki it was obvious that both
> are needed.

first off, I'll admit that I am just going by what's been posted here, I haven't gone looking on the wiki.

secondly, I somewhat disagree with you. #1 is needed for any new formats that are goning to be handled, but #2 may not be.

take the case of OO documents, you may not need to write a conflict resolver helper. the 'appropriate conflict markers' may be something that shows up in your normal OO document editor similar to how the ====> shows up in a text editor for text conflicts

David Lang