Re: [RFC] Merge strategy 'applyreject'

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Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:08:17PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> said that...
>> Create merge strategy 'applyreject'.
>> 
>> The applyreject merge strategy is a two head merge strategy which performs
>> the merge by obtaining the diff between the common base and the branch
>> being merged and applies it to the current branch using git-apply --reject.
>> Consequently any failures are written to .rej files, rather than using
>> the RCS <<<<<<< ======= >>>>>>> format.
>
> So, it's essentially the same as the classic resolve strategy, just
> handling rejects differently? I think that should be more obvious from
> its name, perhaps resolve-rej?
>
> .rej files, what a nuisance to handle those... :)

You were who asked for "apply --reject", weren't you?

I am not interested in this merge strategy myself.  Having said
that, if it is cleanly done, I do not have much objection adding
it for other people's use, at least in principle.

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