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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, git@vger.kernel.org, tao@klerks.biz,
	gitster@pobox.com, newren@gmail.com, phillip.wood123@gmail.com,
	sorganov@gmail.com, Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>,
	Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Subject: About replaying "evil" merges... Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:47:01 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef9be5fb-ba3a-b971-f742-344a25fd5f26@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMLpeTUbG+b89acan-GXGS4H=J7aQupbK8zdxwNg__U_We2dw@mail.gmail.com>

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:

> [...] Glen thinks that in the future we might have some kind of
> rebase-evil-merges mode as well, and that that might become the default.

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23  5:34 [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] rebase: stop accepting --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:54   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 17:50       ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:23           ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 18:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 18:55               ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 19:24                   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 19:56                     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23  5:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 13:53   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 17:49     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-24 14:55   ` Phillip Wood
2023-02-24 17:51     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-23 17:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Junio C Hamano
2023-02-24 13:57   ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-02-24 19:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-02-25 18:09     ` Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:23     ` Glen Choo
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:46     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02 10:07     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-02-25 18:03   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:43     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-02  9:37     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 16:23         ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-12 20:57           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-13 14:20             ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-13 16:12               ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-13 19:46             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:47             ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2023-03-02 18:02     ` Calvin Wan
2023-03-04 23:24       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-01 23:14   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Glen Choo
2023-03-02  5:02     ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-02  5:09       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07   ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-08 22:25       ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:59       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-05  5:07     ` [PATCH v6 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 14:56       ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-07 18:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-12 21:01           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-08  0:09         ` Glen Choo
2023-03-08  0:02       ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:03         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-15  2:52         ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 17:32           ` Glen Choo
2023-03-16 18:11             ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 22:46               ` Glen Choo
2023-03-16 23:48                 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-03-16 20:27             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-16 22:39               ` Glen Choo
2023-03-18  5:59                 ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-24 15:05               ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-03-25 16:59               ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 12:22     ` [PATCH v6 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Sergey Organov
2023-03-05 21:33       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-05 22:54         ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06  0:02           ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-06 13:23             ` Sergey Organov
2023-03-06 19:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-06 16:24     ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-06 17:36       ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-07 15:07         ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-08  0:13     ` Glen Choo
2023-03-12 21:04     ` [PATCH v7 " Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-12 21:04       ` [PATCH v7 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59       ` [PATCH v8 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-20  5:59         ` [PATCH v8 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-22 16:54           ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-23 18:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-03-24 14:52               ` Phillip Wood
2023-03-25  5:23               ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-25  5:21             ` Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06         ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 2/3] rebase: deprecate --rebase-merges="" Alex Henrie
2023-03-26  3:06           ` [PATCH v9 3/3] rebase: add a config option for --rebase-merges Alex Henrie
2023-03-26 15:12           ` [PATCH v9 0/3] rebase: document, clean up, and introduce " Phillip Wood
2023-03-27 16:33             ` Junio C Hamano

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