Re: Merge conflicts are reported relative to root not cwd

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 13, 2016, 21:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4mb5jhm7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbVfk=yAK3UB=H385_YfAtMHZe-gSE=EYVvvcS8jjy08A@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> $ cd t/
> $ git merge ...
> ...
> Auto-merging builtin/submodule--helper.c
> Auto-merging builtin/fetch.c
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in builtin/fetch.c
> Auto-merging builtin/clone.c
> Auto-merging README.md
> ...
>
> It should say ../builtin/fetch.c IMHO.
> Any reason to keep the old behavior?

I actually prefer to see the "relative to root" behaviour when it comes to things like this, that lets you view the things that happen in the whole-tree context.

I would have to go insane before I start a whole-tree operation like "git merge" from deep in my tree, but if I happened to do that, e.g.

	cd perl/blib/lib/Git/SVN/Memoize
        git merge other-branch

I'd rather see that the conflicted path, e.g. builtin/fetch.c, reported by showing it like the above output, not happening in ../../../../../../builtin/fetch.c which I have to count the up-dots to know which file it is talking about.