Re: git-rerere observations and feature suggestions

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 16, 2008, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <m3y755nq99.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080616110113.GA22945@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> We are running a rather complex Git tree with heavy use of git-rerere 
> (the -tip kernel tree, with more than 80 topic branches). git-rerere is 
> really nice in that it caches conflict resolutions, but there are a few 
> areas where it would be nice to have improvements:

[...]

>  - File deletion: would be nice if git-rerere picked up git-rm
>    resolutions. We hit this every now and then and right now i know 
>    which ones need an extra git-rm pass.

>From what I remember some time ago on git mailing list there was idea

for git-rerere2, which would record resolutions on tree level, i.e. record file renames. It could probably record file deletion as well... would someone implement it, and didn't it stay loose idea.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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