Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: I think I've explained my name tracking worries. When it comes to how to merge, there's three issues: - we do commonly have merge clashes where both trees have applied the exact same patch. That should merge perfectly well using the 3-way

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Is there some reason you don't commit before merging? All of the current merge theory seems to want to merge two commits, using the information git keeps about them. Note that the 3-way merge would _only_ merge the committed state. The thing is,

Re: Re: Re: write-tree is pasky-0.4

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: So you want to merge someone else's tree into your committed state, and then merge the result with your working directory to get the working directory you continue with, provided that the second merge