Re: [jgit-dev] [egit-dev] JGit/EGit merging

[Markus Duft <markus.duft@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/22/2011 01:26 PM, Markus Duft wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 11:05 AM, Christian Halstrick wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> here is my personal view on it: as you can see in [1] there are
>> multiple things which the recursive merge strategy adds compared to
>> our current resolve strategy. One is handling merge situations where
>> you have multiple common parents (e.g. criss-cross merges). I would
>> say that this aspect is easy to do and that we can put in on our todo
>> list (christmas holidays bring soo many free hours ...).
>> I currently can't estimate how much effort it is to bring the second
>> aspect of recursive merge strategy: rename detection! That's the
>> aspect I think you are interested in. I guess it's not much but I
>> don't know yet. Somebody else knows?

Anything happening on this? I'd really, really appreciate work on this!

Regards,
Markus

> 
> not that i want to push on something, just as a side-note: we're bringing our >600 plugins project on GIT on 9th of january 2012. so hurry! :D no, joke aside: i think it would be a really cool feature to have, because renaming is something quite common, _and_ in addition, merging rename/modify becomes a _lot_ more likely as soon as you use gerrit. criss-cross merges in turn are something that become less likely when using gerrit as i understand it :)
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
> 
>>
>> [1] http://schacon.github.com/git/git-merge.html#_merge_strategies
>>
>> Ciao
>>   Chris
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 17:34, Markus Duft <markus.duft@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I think not having a recursive merge is a really bad thing, as the no.1 killer feature of git doesn't work. I read somewhere (lost the exact URL; the comment was by a jgit committer i think) that implementing a recursive merge now that jgit has rename following, should be "fairly trivial". does fairly trivial mean i can expect this soon?
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