Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, saurabh gupta wrote:

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, saurabh gupta wrote:

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Very well described, David. I agree with you and providing these merge
options to the user, merge drivers can do the work and mark the
conflicts according to the option. The work to do is to modify the
merge driver. I think in this way, even people who have only a
terminal can also gain from it. They can choose the apt option to see
the conflict markers in their way. So, the aim is to make merge driver
configurable and create the merged/conflicted file according to the
options.

for the GSOC I suspect that the right thing to do is the define one or more
merge drivers to create, and list what applications are going to be used for
testing these merges.

you and the mentor can decide what is a reasonable amount of work.

I will very glad to hear about this thing from the mentor (Johannes
Schindelin, according to wiki). I will try to plan out the things in a
proper way to carry out this project if I get a chance to work on this
for GSoC 2009.

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it may be just doing an XML merge driver is a summer's worth of work, or it
may be that it's not really enough and you should try to do another one or
two.

it also may be that there is a lot of overlap between different merge
drivers, and once you have the XML driver the others become fairly trivial
to do. (I'm thinking the config file examples I posted earlier in the
thread)

with the options given to the user, one can handle the config files
also where order doesn't matter and also the whitespaces problem can
also be handled in the similar way.

when I am mentioning config files here I'm thinking of ones that don't use 
XML (such as the git config file)

a 'paragraph' merge driver could also help with things like a maintainers 
file where the order of the paragaphs doesn't matter, just the content 
inside each one.

that's very similar to re-ordering XML tags, but with a slightly different 
syntax

David Lang