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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2022-02-02 02:37:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-02-02 10:02:27 -0800 |
| commit | db757e8b8d5527c195c461a04ec35d141ddea48e (patch) | |
| tree | a7f6eff8d025937db3e7344eee1e500ac9cb377b /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | 504683162642c0db86c844ea37cad339f928ea9c (diff) | |
| download | git-db757e8b8d5527c195c461a04ec35d141ddea48e.tar.gz | |
show, log: provide a --remerge-diff capability
When this option is specified, we remerge all (two parent) merge commits
and diff the actual merge commit to the automatically created version,
in order to show how users removed conflict markers, resolved the
different conflict versions, and potentially added new changes outside
of conflict regions in order to resolve semantic merge problems (or,
possibly, just to hide other random changes).
This capability works by creating a temporary object directory and
marking it as the primary object store. This makes it so that any blobs
or trees created during the automatic merge are easily removable
afterwards by just deleting all objects from the temporary object
directory.
There are a few ways that this implementation is suboptimal:
* `log --remerge-diff` becomes slow, because the temporary object
directory can fill with many loose objects while running
* the log output can be muddied with misplaced "warning: cannot merge
binary files" messages, since ll-merge.c unconditionally writes those
messages to stderr while running instead of allowing callers to
manage them.
* important conflict and warning messages are simply dropped; thus for
conflicts like modify/delete or rename/rename or file/directory which
are not representable with content conflict markers, there may be no
way for a user of --remerge-diff to know that there had been a
conflict which was resolved (and which possibly motivated other
changes in the merge commit).
* when fixing the previous issue, note that some unimportant conflict
and warning messages might start being included. We should instead
make sure these remain dropped.
Subsequent commits will address these issues.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c89d530d3d..7e27841a95 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ endif::git-diff[] endif::git-format-patch[] ifdef::git-log[] ---diff-merges=(off|none|on|first-parent|1|separate|m|combined|c|dense-combined|cc):: +--diff-merges=(off|none|on|first-parent|1|separate|m|combined|c|dense-combined|cc|remerge|r):: --no-diff-merges:: Specify diff format to be used for merge commits. Default is {diff-merges-default} unless `--first-parent` is in use, in which case @@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ ifdef::git-log[] each of the parents. Separate log entry and diff is generated for each parent. + +--diff-merges=remerge::: +--diff-merges=r::: +--remerge-diff::: + With this option, two-parent merge commits are remerged to + create a temporary tree object -- potentially containing files + with conflict markers and such. A diff is then shown between + that temporary tree and the actual merge commit. ++ +The output emitted when this option is used is subject to change, and +so is its interaction with other options (unless explicitly +documented). ++ --diff-merges=combined::: --diff-merges=c::: -c::: |