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Alex Riesen
304dcf262e Report symlink failures in merge-recursive
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-04 18:05:51 -08:00
René Scharfe
ced621b2c1 merge-recursive: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-23 19:55:52 -08:00
Matt McCutchen
e137a892d8 git-merge-recursive: honor merge.conflictstyle once again
This was originally implemented in c236bcd061
but was lost to a mismerge in 9ba929ed65.

Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:49:38 -07:00
Brandon Casey
f285a2d7ed Replace calls to strbuf_init(&foo, 0) with STRBUF_INIT initializer
Many call sites use strbuf_init(&foo, 0) to initialize local
strbuf variable "foo" which has not been accessed since its
declaration. These can be replaced with a static initialization
using the STRBUF_INIT macro which is just as readable, saves a
function call, and takes up fewer lines.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-12 12:36:19 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
9800c0df41 Merge branch 'bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix'
* bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix:
  Clarify commit error message for unmerged files
  Use strchrnul() instead of strchr() plus manual workaround
  Use remove_path from dir.c instead of own implementation
  Add remove_path: a function to remove as much as possible of a path
  git-submodule: Fix "Unable to checkout" for the initial 'update'
  Clarify how the user can satisfy stash's 'dirty state' check.
  t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns
  t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns
  make "git remote" report multiple URLs
  diff hunk pattern: fix misconverted "\{" tex macro introducers
  diff: fix "multiple regexp" semantics to find hunk header comment
  diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers
  diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers
  diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection
  diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex
  diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
	xdiff-interface.h
2008-09-29 11:04:20 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
15dc66abf0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Remove empty directories in recursive merge
  Documentation: clarify the details of overriding LESS via core.pager

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
2008-09-26 08:31:56 -07:00
Alex Riesen
eb53586ba9 Cleanup remove_path
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-26 08:24:19 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
a6f63ae002 merge-recursive: get rid of virtual_id
We now just leave the object->sha1 field of virtual commits 0{40} as it
is initialized, as a unique hash is not necessary in case of virtual
commits.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-05 11:57:54 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
696ee23cc1 merge-recursive: move current_{file,directory}_set to struct merge_options
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
2008-09-04 22:50:43 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
c7d849243a merge-recursive: move the global obuf to struct merge_options
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
2008-09-04 22:50:43 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
b7fa51da9b merge-recursive: get rid of the index_only global variable
struct merge_options already has a call_depth member, and index_only
global variable always equals to !!call_depth.

We always use index_only as a condition, so we can just
use call_depth instead of index_only.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
2008-09-04 22:49:34 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
5033639c95 merge-recursive: move call_depth to struct merge_options
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
2008-09-03 19:06:17 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
8a2fce1895 merge-recursive: introduce merge_options
This makes it possible to avoid passing the labels of branches as
arguments to merge_recursive(), merge_trees() and
merge_recursive_generic().

It also takes care of subtree merge, output buffering, verbosity, and
rename limits - these were global variables till now in
merge-recursive.c.

A new function, named init_merge_options(), is introduced as well, it
clears the struct merge_info, then initializes with default values,
finally updates the default values based on the config and environment
variables.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 20:46:54 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
73118f89b8 merge-recursive.c: Add more generic merge_recursive_generic()
merge_recursive_generic() takes, in comparison to to merge_recursive(),
no commit ("struct commit *") arguments but SHA ids ("unsigned char *"),
and no commit list of bases but an array of refs ("const char **").

This makes it more generic in the case that it can also take the SHA
of a tree to merge trees without commits, for the bases, the head
and the remote.

merge_recursive_generic() also handles locking and updating of the
index, which is a common use case of merge_recursive().

This patch also rewrites builtin-merge-recursive.c to make use of
merge_recursive_generic().  By doing this, I stumbled over the
limitation of 20 bases and I've added a warning if this limitation
is exceeded.

This patch qualifies make_virtual_commit() as static again because
this function is not needed anymore outside merge-recursive.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 20:46:54 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
9047ebbc22 Split out merge_recursive() to merge-recursive.c
Move most of the of code from builtin-merge-recursive.c to a new file
merge-recursive.c and introduce merge_recursive_setup() in there so that
builtin-merge-recursive and other builtins call it.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 20:46:54 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
e1b3a2cad7 Build-in merge-recursive
This makes write_tree_from_memory(), which writes the active cache as
a tree and returns the struct tree for it, available to other code. It
also makes available merge_trees(), which does the internal merge of
two trees with a known base, and merge_recursive(), which does the
recursive internal merge of two commits with a list of common
ancestors.

The first two of these will be used by checkout -m, and the third is
presumably useful in general, although the implementation of checkout
-m which entirely matches the behavior of the shell version does not
use it (since it ignores the difference of ancestry between the old
branch and the new branch).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
2008-02-09 23:16:51 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7a51ed66f6 Make on-disk index representation separate from in-core one
This converts the index explicitly on read and write to its on-disk
format, allowing the in-core format to contain more flags, and be
simpler.

In particular, the in-core format is now host-endian (as opposed to the
on-disk one that is network endian in order to be able to be shared
across machines) and as a result we can dispense with all the
htonl/ntohl on accesses to the cache_entry fields.

This will make it easier to make use of various temporary flags that do
not exist in the on-disk format.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-21 12:44:31 -08:00
Brandon Casey
4ed7cd3ab0 Improve use of lockfile API
Remove remaining double close(2)'s.  i.e. close() before
commit_locked_index() or commit_lock_file().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 15:35:35 -08:00
Jim Meyering
790296fd88 Fix grammar nits in documentation and in code comments.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-03 09:15:17 -08:00
Finn Arne Gangstad
20b178de7b Improved submodule merge support
When merging conflicting submodule changes from a supermodule, generate
a conflict message saying what went wrong. Also leave the tree in a state
where git status shows the conflict, and git submodule status gives the user
enough information to do the merge manally. Previously this would just fail.

Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-19 16:58:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ff72af00f8 Support a merge with conflicting gitlink change
merge-recursive did not support merging trees that have conflicting
changes in submodules they contain, and died.  Support it exactly the
same way as how it handles conflicting symbolic link changes --- mark it
as a conflict, take the tentative result from the current side, and
letting the caller resolve the conflict, without dying in merge_file()
function.

Also reword the error message issued when merge_file() has to die
because it sees a tree entry of type it does not support yet.

[jc: fixed up initial draft by Finn Arne Gangstad]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-11 00:40:56 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
8f67f8aefb Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks.
reverse_diff was a bit-value in disguise, it's merged in the flags now.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e2b7eaf0ca Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  RelNotes-1.5.3.5: describe recent fixes
  merge-recursive.c: mrtree in merge() is not used before set
  sha1_file.c: avoid gcc signed overflow warnings
  Fix a small memory leak in builtin-add
  honor the http.sslVerify option in shell scripts
2007-10-29 12:53:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f120ae2a8e merge-recursive.c: mrtree in merge() is not used before set
The called function merge_trees() sets its *result, to which the
address of the variable mrtree in merge() function is passed,
only when index_only is set.  But that is Ok as the function
uses the value in the variable only under index_only iteration.

However, recent gcc does not realize this.  Work it around by
adding a fake initializer.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-29 12:00:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
66d4035e10 Merge branch 'ph/strbuf'
* ph/strbuf: (44 commits)
  Make read_patch_file work on a strbuf.
  strbuf_read_file enhancement, and use it.
  strbuf change: be sure ->buf is never ever NULL.
  double free in builtin-update-index.c
  Clean up stripspace a bit, use strbuf even more.
  Add strbuf_read_file().
  rerere: Fix use of an empty strbuf.buf
  Small cache_tree_write refactor.
  Make builtin-rerere use of strbuf nicer and more efficient.
  Add strbuf_cmp.
  strbuf_setlen(): do not barf on setting length of an empty buffer to 0
  sq_quote_argv and add_to_string rework with strbuf's.
  Full rework of quote_c_style and write_name_quoted.
  Rework unquote_c_style to work on a strbuf.
  strbuf API additions and enhancements.
  nfv?asprintf are broken without va_copy, workaround them.
  Fix the expansion pattern of the pseudo-static path buffer.
  builtin-for-each-ref.c::copy_name() - do not overstep the buffer.
  builtin-apply.c: fix a tiny leak introduced during xmemdupz() conversion.
  Use xmemdupz() in many places.
  ...
2007-10-03 03:06:02 -07:00
Carlos Rica
102c2338da Move make_cache_entry() from merge-recursive.c into read-cache.c
The function make_cache_entry() is too useful to be hidden away in
merge-recursive.  So move it to libgit.a (exposing it via cache.h).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26 13:42:10 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
df3a02f612 Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit
It might be a sign of source code management gone bad, but when two branches
has diverged almost beyond recognition and time has come for the branches to
merge, the user is going to need all the help his tool can give him. Honoring
diff.renamelimit has great potential as a painkiller in such situations.

The painkiller effect could have been achieved by e.g. 'merge.renamelimit',
but the flexibility gained by a separate option is questionable: our user
would probably expect git to detect renames equally good when merging as
when diffing (I known I did).

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-25 17:35:16 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
19247e5510 nfv?asprintf are broken without va_copy, workaround them.
* drop nfasprintf.
* move nfvasprintf into imap-send.c back, and let it work on a 8k buffer,
  and die() in case of overflow. It should be enough for imap commands, if
  someone cares about imap-send, he's welcomed to fix it properly.
* replace nfvasprintf use in merge-recursive with a copy of the strbuf_addf
  logic, it's one place, we'll live with it.
  To ease the change, output_buffer string list is replaced with a strbuf ;)
* rework trace.c to call vsnprintf itself.  It's used to format strerror()s
  and git command names, it should never be more than a few octets long, let
  it work on a 8k static buffer with vsnprintf or die loudly.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
2007-09-20 23:17:22 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
182af8343c Use xmemdupz() in many places.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 17:42:17 -07:00
Carlos Rica
6640f88165 Move make_cache_entry() from merge-recursive.c into read-cache.c
The function make_cache_entry() is too useful to be hidden away in
merge-recursive.  So move it to libgit.a (exposing it via cache.h).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-12 13:25:07 -07:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
7647b17f1d Use xmkstemp() instead of mkstemp()
xmkstemp() performs error checking and prints a standard error message when
an error occur.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 22:20:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b798671fa9 merge-recursive: do not rudely die on binary merge
When you try to merge a path that involves binary file-level
merge, merge-recursive died rudely without cleaning up its own
mess.  A files added by the merge were left in the working tree,
but the index was not written out (because it just punted and
died), so it was cumbersome for the user to retry it by first
running "git reset --hard".

This changes merge-recursive to still warn but do the "binary"
merge for such a path; leave the "our" version in the working
tree, but still keep the path unmerged so that the user can sort
it out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 22:20:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
933bf40a5c Start moving unpack-trees to "struct tree_desc"
This doesn't actually change any real code, but it changes the interface
to unpack_trees() to take an array of "struct tree_desc" entries, the same
way the tree-walk.c functions do.

The reason for this is that we would be much better off if we can do the
tree-unpacking using the generic "traverse_trees()" functionality instead
of having to the special "unpack" infrastructure.

This really is a pretty minimal diff, just to change the calling
convention. It passes all the tests, and looks sane. There were only two
users of "unpack_trees()": builtin-read-tree and merge-recursive, and I
tried to keep the changes minimal.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 02:30:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b79d18c92d -Wold-style-definition fix
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-13 02:02:10 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
9f30855d0f merge-recursive: refuse to merge binary files
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-04 23:07:19 -07:00
Alex Riesen
0d5e6c9781 Ignore merged status of the file-level merge
as it is not relevant for whether the result should be written.
Even if no real merge happened, there might be _no_ reason to
rewrite the working tree file. Maybe even more so.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-26 16:11:39 -07:00
Alex Riesen
8a35981927 Add a test for merging changed and rename-changed branches
Also leave a warning for future merge-recursive explorers.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-25 23:43:16 -07:00
Alex Riesen
c135ee88f8 Avoid excessive rewrites in merge-recursive
If a file is changed in one branch, and renamed and changed to the
same content in another branch than we can skip the rewrite of this
file in the working directory, as the content does not change.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-25 23:43:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2d7c6c620 Merge branch 'jc/attr'
* 'jc/attr': (28 commits)
  lockfile: record the primary process.
  convert.c: restructure the attribute checking part.
  Fix bogus linked-list management for user defined merge drivers.
  Simplify calling of CR/LF conversion routines
  Document gitattributes(5)
  Update 'crlf' attribute semantics.
  Documentation: support manual section (5) - file formats.
  Simplify code to find recursive merge driver.
  Counto-fix in merge-recursive
  Fix funny types used in attribute value representation
  Allow low-level driver to specify different behaviour during internal merge.
  Custom low-level merge driver: change the configuration scheme.
  Allow the default low-level merge driver to be configured.
  Custom low-level merge driver support.
  Add a demonstration/test of customized merge.
  Allow specifying specialized merge-backend per path.
  merge-recursive: separate out xdl_merge() interface.
  Allow more than true/false to attributes.
  Document git-check-attr
  Change attribute negation marker from '!' to '-'.
  ...
2007-04-21 17:38:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e87b1c943a Fix bogus linked-list management for user defined merge drivers.
ll_user_merge_tail is supposed to point at the pointer to be
updated to point at a newly created item.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-21 00:05:31 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ad57cbca61 Kill the useless progress meter in merge-recursive
The mess known as the progress meter in merge-recursive was my own
fault; I put it in thinking that we might be spending a lot of time
resolving unmerged entries in the index that were not handled by
the simple 3-way index merge code.

Turns out we don't really spend that much time there, so the progress
meter was pretty much always jumping to "(n/n) 100%" as soon as
the program started.  That isn't a very good indication of progress.

Since I don't have a great solution for how a progress meter should
work here, I'm proposing we back it out entirely.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-20 01:43:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
851c603e9c Fix working directory errno handling when unlinking a directory
Alex Riesen noticed that the case where a file replaced a directory entry
in the working tree was broken on cygwin. It turns out that the code made
some Linux-specific assumptions, and also ignored errors entirely for the
case where the entry was a symlink rather than a file.

This cleans it up by separating out the common case into a function of its
own, so that both regular files and symlinks can share it, and by making
the error handling more obvious (and not depend on any Linux-specific
behaviour).

Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 22:48:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d56dbd6709 Simplify code to find recursive merge driver.
There is no need to intern the string to git_attr, as we are already
dealing with the name of the driver there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 19:22:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
15ba3af2d5 Counto-fix in merge-recursive
When the configuration has variables unrelated to low-level
merge drivers (e.g. merge.summary), the code failed to ignore
them but did something totally senseless.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 19:21:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a5e92abde6 Fix funny types used in attribute value representation
It was bothering me a lot that I abused small integer values
casted to (void *) to represent non string values in
gitattributes.  This corrects it by making the type of attribute
values (const char *), and using the address of a few statically
allocated character buffer to denote true/false.  Unset attributes
are represented as having NULLs as their values.

Added in-header documentation to explain how git_checkattr()
routine should be called.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 16:17:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3086486d32 Allow low-level driver to specify different behaviour during internal merge.
This allows [merge "drivername"] to have a variable "recursive"
that names a different low-level merge driver to be used when
merging common ancestors to come up with a virtual ancestor.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 12:30:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
153920da5b Custom low-level merge driver: change the configuration scheme.
This changes the configuration syntax for defining a low-level
merge driver to be:

	[merge "<<drivername>>"]
		driver = "<<command line>>"
		name = "<<driver description>>"

which is much nicer to read and is extensible.  Credit goes to
Martin Waitz and Linus.

In addition, when we use an external low-level merge driver, it
is reported as an extra output from merge-recursive, using the
value of merge.<<drivername>.name variable.

The demonstration in t6026 has also been updated.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 12:30:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
be89cb239e Allow the default low-level merge driver to be configured.
When no 'merge' attribute is given to a path, merge-recursive
uses the built-in xdl-merge as the low-level merge driver.

A new configuration item 'merge.default' can name a low-level
merge driver of user's choice to be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 01:50:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f3ef6b6bbe Custom low-level merge driver support.
This allows users to specify custom low-level merge driver per
path, using the attributes mechanism.  Just like you can specify
one of built-in "text", "binary", "union" low-level merge
drivers by saying:

	*		merge=text
	.gitignore	merge=union
	*.jpg		merge=binary

pick a name of your favorite merge driver, and assign it as the
value of the 'merge' attribute.

A custom low-level merge driver is defined via the config
mechanism.  This patch introduces 'merge.driver', a multi-valued
configuration.  Its value is the name (i.e. the one you use as
the value of 'merge' attribute) followed by a command line
specification.  The command line can contain %O, %A, and %B to
be interpolated with the names of temporary files that hold the
common ancestor version, the version from your branch, and the
version from the other branch, and the resulting command is
spawned.

The low-level merge driver is expected to update the temporary
file for your branch (i.e. %A) with the result and exit with
status 0 for a clean merge, and non-zero status for a conflicted
merge.

A new test in t6026 demonstrates a sample usage.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 01:43:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a129d96f41 Allow specifying specialized merge-backend per path.
This allows 'merge' attribute to control how the file-level
three-way merge is done per path.

 - If you set 'merge' to true, leave it unspecified, or set it
   to "text", we use the built-in 3-way xdl-merge.

 - If you set 'merge' to false, or set it to "binary, the
   "binary" merge is done.  The merge result is the blob from
   'our' tree, but this still leaves the path conflicted, so
   that the mess can be sorted out by the user.  This is
   obviously meant to be useful for binary files.

 - 'merge=union' (this is the first example of a string valued
   attribute, introduced in the previous one) uses the "union"
   merge.  The "union" merge takes lines in conflicted hunks
   from both sides, which is useful for line-oriented files such
   as .gitignore.

Instead fo setting merge to 'true' or 'false' by using 'merge'
or '-merge', setting it explicitly to "text" or "binary" will
become useful once we start allowing custom per-path backends to
be added, and allow them to be activated for the default
(i.e. 'merge' attribute specified to 'true' or 'false') case,
using some other mechanisms.  Setting merge attribute to "text"
or "binary" will be a way to explicitly request to override such
a custom default for selected paths.

Currently there is no way to specify random programs but it
should be trivial for motivated contributors to add later.

There is one caveat, though.  ll_merge() is called for both
internal ancestor merge and the outer "final" merge.  I think an
interactive custom per-path merge backend should refrain from
going interactive when performing an internal merge (you can
tell it by checking call_depth) and instead just call either
ll_xdl_merge() if the content is text, or call ll_binary_merge()
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-17 14:11:20 -07:00