tests/merge/workdir/recursive.c


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Edward Thomson b2b37077 2018-01-21T18:05:45 merge: reverse merge bases for recursive merge When the commits being merged have multiple merge bases, reverse the order when creating the virtual merge base. This is for compatibility with git's merge-recursive algorithm, and ensures that we build identical trees. Git does this to try to use older merge bases first. Per 8918b0c: > It seems to be the only sane way to do it: when a two-head merge is > done, and the merge-base and one of the two branches agree, the > merge assumes that the other branch has something new. > > If we start creating virtual commits from newer merge-bases, and go > back to older merge-bases, and then merge with newer commits again, > chances are that a patch is lost, _because_ the merge-base and the > head agree on it. Unlikely, yes, but it happened to me.
Edward Thomson 78859c63 2015-11-20T17:33:49 merge: handle conflicts in recursive base building When building a recursive merge base, allow conflicts to occur. Use the file (with conflict markers) as the common ancestor. The user has already seen and dealt with this conflict by virtue of having a criss-cross merge. If they resolved this conflict identically in both branches, then there will be no conflict in the result. This is the best case scenario. If they did not resolve the conflict identically in the two branches, then we will generate a new conflict. If the user is simply using standard conflict output then the results will be fairly sensible. But if the user is using a mergetool or using diff3 output, then the common ancestor will be a conflict file (itself with diff3 output, haha!). This is quite terrible, but it matches git's behavior.
Edward Thomson 651bfd69 2015-11-09T08:24:47 recursive: test conflict output during recursive merge