Re: rerere with modified/deleted conflicts

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Is this supported already?
> 
> I do not think so, as rerere is about applying previous change using 3-way
> merge. A modify/delete conflict would mean you have only two stages, and
> while I can see somebody might want to say "I want to ignore further
> modifications to this dead path ignored and resolve in favor of deletion",
> it felt a bit too aggressive to my taste when I last worked on rerere.

Well, that's exactly the use case we have here this would be nice for.  
But I wouldn't design it as "ignore any further changes" but rather 
"ignore _this_ particular change to the file I want you to delete".


Nicolas
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