Re: merge strategy request

On 3/26/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

But a more interesting point is "under what condition".  If the
condition is "when GIT_MERGE environment is defined", it is not
much better than what Dscho suggested, as the external merger
would be called for all paths.

Well well... no. Unless you mean all paths that need diff3 merging
(that is, all paths that changed on both sides). And in that case, the
script itself can have the "change policy depending on file extension
or phase of the moon" machinery. I think it makes it more powerful
because it can have specialised logic for this -- where the git
machinery is going to be limited to simpler rules (like file
extension).

In any case, it is a _different_ mechanism to saying "all changed
paths on either side". I don't know if there is even an interesting
case for that.

it is rather an unfortunate norm.  I am not opposed to give
git-merge-recursive a command line option to tell it to merge
ignoring the whitespace-only changes, when it does the 3-way
file-level merge internally.

That'd be great to have. How about both? ;-)

cheers,


m