About replaying "evil" merges... Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges

Hi Alex,

Heads up: This mail is totally a tangent and is _not_ intended to distract from the patch series.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Alex Henrie wrote:

While it probably won't be the default, like, ever, I can well imagine that there would be a good opportunity to add a config setting to make it the default _for that user_.

About implementing that mode... I recently picked up a repair item from my ever-growing TODO list to brush up that "replay merge conflict resolutions and amendments" idea of Phillip's that I had implemented already four years ago (only to find out that it unfortunately caused a lot of nested merge conflicts when using it on Git for Windows' branch thicket; I tried my best to add a test case demonstrating the problematic behavior).

While I had to stop working on it again, I at least left a rebased version at https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1491 (in case anybody is interested where I wanted to take this PR, I left comments describing the changes I had planned on looking into).

I mention this PR here in this thread not so much to derail the review, or even to distract from this patch series (I really detest when that happens in reviews of my own patches, so please accept my apology in advance should that happen here, it is _really_ not my intention), but as a point in favor of Glen's suspicion that we might get such a mode in the future to replay evil merges or merges with resolved conflicts.

Ciao, Johannes