Re: merge strategy request
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:01
Hi, On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, David Lang wrote:
there's been talk about custom merge strategies for different types of files (uncompressing office documents to merge them for example), so I think this is along the same lines and wanted to let other people start thinking about the problem and possible solutions.
There is a nice example script, named git-merge-stupid, which you can use as template. Basically, just write a program named "git-merge-david-lang", which takes arguments of the form merge-base [merge-base2...] -- head remote [remote...] IOW, all arguments up to "--" are merge bases, and after the "--" comes the HEAD and all branches to be merged. All of these argument (except "--") are given as commit hashes. IIRC, if no merge bases are passed, the program is expected to find out (basically, take the output of "git-merge-base --all <head> <remote>..."). And I really prefer _you_ working on it. Ciao, Dscho