Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] status: update git-status.txt for --porcelain=v2

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2016, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607261733500.14111@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <57969607.9080206@gmail.com>

Hi Kuba,

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote:

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> W dniu 2016-07-25 o 21:25, Jeff Hostetler pisze:
> 
> > +    Field       Meaning
> > +    --------------------------------------------------------
> > +    <xy>        A 2 character field describing the conflict type
> > +                as described in the short format.
> > +    <sub>       A 4 character field describing the submodule state
> > +                as described above.
> > +    <m*>        The 6 character octal file modes for the stage 1,
> > +                stage 2, stage 3, and worktree.
> 
> Errr... the pattern has only _3_ character octal modes, <m1> <m2> <m3>.
> A question: what happens during octopus merge?

From git-merge-octopus.sh:

	# We allow only last one to have a hand-resolvable
	# conflicts.  Last round failed and we still had
	# a head to merge.

In other words, octopus merges do not use higher stages than 3.

Ciao, Dscho