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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mergetool: add automerge configuration
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:32:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv9cs3uxo.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fe3dd62e12f8_7855a2081f@natae.notmuch> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:14:26 -0600")

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>> Ah, I forgot about that one.  I think "the number of conflicts" was
>> a UI mistake (the original that it mimics is "merge" from RCS suite,
>> which uses 1 and 2 for "conflicts" and "trouble") but we know we
>> will get conflicts, so it is wrong to expect success from the
>> command.  Deliberately ignoring the return status is the right thing
>> to do.
>
> I agree. My bet is that nobody is checking the return status of "git
> merge-file" to find out the number of conflicts. Plus, how can you check
> the difference between 255 conflicts and error -1?

Yup, I already mentioned UI mistake so you do not have to repeat it
to consume more bandwidth.  We're in agreement already.

> We could do something like --marker-size=13 to minimize the chances of
> that happening.
>
> In that case I would prefer '/^<\{13\} /' (to avoid too many
> characters). I see those regexes used elsewhere in git, but I don't know
> how portable that is.

If it is used elsewhere with "sed", then that would be OK, but if it
is not with "sed" but with "grep", that's quite a different story.

> So, do we want those three things?
>
>  1. A non-standard marker-size
>  2. Check beforehand the existence of those markers and disable
>     automerge
>  3. Check afterwards the existence of those markers and disable
>     automerge

I do not think 3 is needed if we do 2 and I do not think 1 would
particularly be useful *UNLESS* the code consults with the attribute
system to see what marker size the path uses to avoid crashing with
the non-standard marker-size the path already uses.

So the easiest would be not to do anything for now, with a note
about known limitations in the doc.  The second easiest would be to
do 2. alone.  We could do 1. to be more complete but I tend to think
that it is better to leave it as #leftoverbits.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-24  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-23  4:53 [PATCH v5 0/1] mergetool: remove unconflicted lines Felipe Contreras
2020-12-23  4:53 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] mergetool: add automerge configuration Felipe Contreras
2020-12-23 13:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-23 14:23     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-23 20:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-24  0:14         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24  0:32           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-12-24  1:36             ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24  6:17               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-24 15:59                 ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24 22:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-27 18:01                     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-24  9:24 ` [PATCH v5 0/1] mergetool: remove unconflicted lines Junio C Hamano
2020-12-24 16:16   ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-30  5:47   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-12-30 22:33     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-27 20:58 ` [PATCH v6 0/1] mergetool: add automerge configuration Seth House
2020-12-27 20:58   ` [PATCH v6 1/2] " Seth House
2020-12-27 22:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-27 22:29       ` Seth House
2020-12-27 22:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-27 20:58   ` [PATCH v6 2/2] mergetool: Add per-tool support for the autoMerge flag Seth House
2020-12-27 22:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-28  0:41   ` [PATCH v7 0/2] mergetool: add automerge configuration Seth House
2020-12-28  0:41     ` [PATCH v7 1/2] " Seth House
2020-12-28  0:41     ` [PATCH v7 2/2] mergetool: Add per-tool support for the autoMerge flag Seth House
2020-12-28  1:18       ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-28  4:54     ` [PATCH v8 0/4] mergetool: add automerge configuration Seth House
2020-12-28  4:54       ` [PATCH v8 1/4] " Seth House
2020-12-28 11:30         ` Johannes Sixt
2020-12-28  4:54       ` [PATCH v8 2/4] mergetool: Add per-tool support for the autoMerge flag Seth House
2020-12-28 13:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-28  4:54       ` [PATCH v8 3/4] mergetool: Break setup_tool out into separate initialization function Seth House
2020-12-28 11:48         ` Johannes Sixt
2020-12-28  4:54       ` [PATCH v8 4/4] mergetool: Add automerge_enabled tool-specific override function Seth House
2020-12-28 11:57         ` Johannes Sixt
2020-12-28 13:19         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-28 19:29       ` [PATCH v9 0/5] mergetool: add automerge configuration Seth House
2020-12-28 19:29         ` [PATCH v9 1/5] " Seth House
2020-12-28 19:29         ` [PATCH v9 2/5] mergetool: alphabetize the mergetool config docs Seth House
2020-12-28 19:29         ` [PATCH v9 3/5] mergetool: add per-tool support for the autoMerge flag Seth House
2020-12-28 19:29         ` [PATCH v9 4/5] mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function Seth House
2020-12-29  8:50           ` Johannes Sixt
2020-12-29 17:23             ` Seth House
2020-12-28 19:29         ` [PATCH v9 5/5] mergetool: add automerge_enabled tool-specific override function Seth House
2020-12-29  2:01           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-01-06  5:55           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07  3:58             ` Seth House
2021-01-07  6:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07  9:27                 ` Seth House
2021-01-07 21:26                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-08 15:04                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-01-30  5:46         ` [PATCH v10 0/3] mergetool: add hideResolved configuration (was automerge) Seth House
2021-01-30  5:46           ` [PATCH v10 1/3] mergetool: add hideResolved configuration Seth House
2021-01-30  8:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-30  5:46           ` [PATCH v10 2/3] mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function Seth House
2021-01-30  5:46           ` [PATCH v10 3/3] mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag Seth House
2021-01-30  8:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-09 20:07           ` [PATCH v11 0/3] mergetool: add hideResolved configuration (was automerge) Seth House
2021-02-09 20:07             ` [PATCH v11 1/3] mergetool: add hideResolved configuration Seth House
2021-03-09  2:29               ` [PATCH] mergetool: do not enable hideResolved by default Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-09  5:42                 ` Seth House
2021-03-10  1:23                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-10  8:06                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-11  1:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-12 23:12                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-12 23:29                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-12 23:36                         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-13  8:36                           ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-13  8:38                             ` [PATCH 1/2] " Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-13  8:41                             ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: describe mergetool configuration in git-mergetool(1) Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-13 23:34                               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-13 23:37                               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-09 20:07             ` [PATCH v11 2/3] mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function Seth House
2021-02-09 20:07             ` [PATCH v11 3/3] mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag Seth House
2021-02-09 22:11             ` [PATCH v11 0/3] mergetool: add hideResolved configuration (was automerge) Junio C Hamano
2021-02-09 23:27               ` Seth House
2020-12-28 10:29     ` [PATCH v7 0/2] mergetool: add automerge configuration Junio C Hamano
2020-12-28 14:40       ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-28  1:02   ` [PATCH v6 0/1] " Felipe Contreras

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