Re: How to selectively recreate merge state?

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Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 11.12.2009 15:00:
> Dnia piątek 11. grudnia 2009 13:33, Michael J Gruber napisał:
>> Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 11.12.2009 12:20:
>>> Dnia piątek 11. grudnia 2009 11:44, Michael J Gruber napisał:
>>>> Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 11.12.2009 02:33:
>>>>> Dnia piątek 11. grudnia 2009 02:11, Junio C Hamano napisał:
>>>>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   --unresolve::
>>>>>>>         Restores the 'unmerged' or 'needs updating' state of a
>>>>>>>         file during a merge if it was cleared by accident.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unless "git add foo" not only adds current contents of foo at stage 0,
>>>>>>> but also removes higher stages from index...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By definition, adding anything at stage #0 is to remove higher stages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm... let's test it:
>>>>>
>>>>>  $ git merge side-branch 
>>>>>  Auto-merging foo
>>>>>  CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in foo
>>>>>  Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
>>>>>  $ git ls-files --stage
>>>>>  100644 257cc5642cb1a054f08cc83f2d943e56fd3ebe99 1       foo
>>>>>  100644 3bd1f0e29744a1f32b08d5650e62e2e62afb177c 2       foo
>>>>>  100644 469a41eda5c8b45503a3bfc32ad6b5decc658132 3       foo
>>>>>  $ <edit foo>
>>>>>  $ git add foo
>>>>>  $ git ls-files --stage
>>>>>  100644 a1b58d38ffa61e8e99b7cb95cdf540aedf2a96b3 0       foo
>>>
>>> I thought that "git add foo" only adds current contents of foo in stage 0,
>>> and does not delete other stages.
>>>  
>>> Unless "git add foo" does more than "git update-index foo" does here.
>>
>> Quoting Junio:
>>
>> By definition, adding anything at stage #0 is to remove higher stages.
>>
>> Could one leave 1 alone but still mark the conflict resolved?
> 
> I have thought that if there exist stage #0 in index, git simply _ignores_
> higher stages, so git-add simply adds stage #0 and does not delete higher
> stages.
> 
> But I see that "git update-index --unresolve" (and its predecessor 
> "git-unresolve") simply recreate stages #2 and #3.
> 
> 
> The documentation of "git update-index --unresolve" lacks this info,
> and it doesn't tell one what it is for (see commit message for commit
> ec16779 (Add git-unresolve <paths>..., 2006-04-19)).
> 

Oh yes, one should always read the classics ;) [Really nice commit
message, that is.]

Michael
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