On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:07:16PM +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote: > > Exactly. The case I am talking about is where the patch-id's are > different but there are no conflicts. I have worked out an example > for git and darcs. Below are two scripts to demonstrate. Oops, that was the same script twice. Here are the darcs and git versions, respectively: #!/bin/sh # # Darcs recognizes matching upstream changes # testdir=test-darcs mkdir "$testdir" || exit 1 ( cd "$testdir" mkdir master cd master darcs init for line in $(seq 20) do echo $line >>file done darcs add file darcs record -a -m initial cd .. darcs get master side cd side sed -i '5 s/^.*$/original change/' file darcs record -a -m 'original change' cd ../master sed -i '5 s/.*/original change/' file sed -i '15 s/^.*$/with an extra hunk/' file darcs record -a -m 'original change' sed -i '5 s/.*/modified change/' file darcs record -a -m 'modified change' darcs pull -a ../side ) #!/bin/sh # # Git does not recognize matching upstream changes # testdir=test-git mkdir "$testdir" || exit 1 ( cd "$testdir" git init -q for line in $(seq 20) do echo $line >>file done git add file git commit -q -m initial git checkout -q -b side sed -i '5 s/^.*$/original change/' file git add file git commit -q -m 'original change' git checkout -q master sed -i '5 s/.*/original change/' file sed -i '15 s/^.*$/with an extra hunk/' file git add file git commit -q -m 'original change' sed -i '5 s/.*/modified change/' file git add file git commit -q -m 'modified change' git rebase master side git diff ) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html