2018-01-08 19:32 GMT+03:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: > Hi, > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > >> 2018-01-08 17:42 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > 2018-01-08 16:56 GMT+03:00 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>: >> >> Hi Matwey, >> >> >> >> On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: >> >> >> >>> I think that rebase preserve-merges algorithm needs further >> >>> improvements. Probably, you already know it. >> >> >> >> Yes. preserve-merges is a fundamentally flawed design. >> >> >> >> Please have a look here: >> >> >> >> https://github.com/git/git/pull/447 >> >> >> >> Since we are in a feature freeze in preparation for v2.16.0, I will >> >> submit these patch series shortly after v2.16.0 is released. >> >> >> >>> As far as I understand the root cause of this that when new merge >> >>> commit is created by rebase it is done simply by git merge >> >>> $new_parents without taking into account any actual state of the >> >>> initial merge commit. >> >> >> >> Indeed. preserve-merges does not allow commits to be reordered. (Actually, >> >> it *does* allow it, but then fails to handle it correctly.) We even have >> >> test cases that mark this as "known breakage". >> >> >> >> But really, I do not think it is worth trying to fix the broken design. >> >> Better to go with the new recreate-merges. (I am biased, of course, >> >> because I invented recreate-merges. But then, I also invented >> >> preserve-merges, so ...) >> > >> > Well. I just checked --recreate-merges=no-rebase-cousins from the PR >> > and found that it produces the same wrong result in my test example. >> > The topology is reproduced correctly, but merge-commit content is >> > broken. >> > I did git rebase --recreate-merges=no-rebase-cousins --onto abc-0.1 v0.1 abc-0.2 >> >> Indeed, exactly as you still say in the documentation: "Merge conflict >> resolutions or manual amendments to merge commits are not preserved." >> My initial point is that they have to be preserved. Probably in >> recreate-merges, if preserve-merges is discontinued. > > Ah, but that is consistent with how non-merge-preserving rebase works: the > `pick` commands *also* do not record merge conflict resolution... > I am sorry, didn't get it. When I do non-merge-preserving rebase --interactive there is no way to `pick' merge-commit at all. > Ciao, > Johannes -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov
