Re: [RFC] Replace rebase with filtering

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Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Steven Grimm wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >> That is correct, but --ignore-if-in-upstream actually tests the hash of 
> >> the _diff_, not of the commit. So, if c really introduces the same change 
> >> as f (i.e. the diffs are identical), git-rebase will ignore f:
> >>
> >> a---b---c---d
> >>              \
> >>               e'---g'
> >>
> >> Totally untested, of course. But this is what --ignore-if-in-upstream was 
> >> written for.
> >>   
> > 
> > Okay, great, that is certainly an improvement over what I thought was 
> > happening. But it won't work if you had to manually resolve a conflict 
> > during the rebase, yes? In that case the diffs would presumably not match.
> 
> Then git-rerere would help, I think.

AFAICT no. First, git-rerere can only resolve conflicts for which it has 
seen a conflict resolution. Unlikely here.

Worse, the way git-rerere would _have_ to resolve the conflict, a commit 
would _fail_ (since no change should be committed if a munged version of 
it was already applied).

Ciao,
Dscho

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