On 20/05/21 13.09, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
+Outline: + + 0. Assumptions + + 1. How rebasing and cherry-picking work + + 2. Why the renames on MERGE_SIDE1 in any given pick are *always* a + superset of the renames on MERGE_SIDE1 for the next pick. + + 3. Why any rename on MERGE_SIDE1 in any given pick is _almost_ always also + a rename on MERGE_SIDE1 for the next pick + + 4. A detailed description of the the counter-examples to #3. + + 5. Why the special cases in #4 are still fully reasonable to use to pair + up files for three-way content merging in the merge machinery, and why + they do not affect the correctness of the merge. + + 6. Interaction with skipping of "irrelevant" renames + + 7. Additional items that need to be cached + + 8. How directory rename detection interacts with the above and why this + optimization is still safe even if merge.directoryRenames is set to + "true". + +
For item 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, it seems that you form question sentences but ended with dot, instead of question mark (?). Are these question sentences or descriptive sentences?
+=== 0. Assumptions === + +There are two assumptions that will hold throughout this document: + + * The upstream side where commits are transplanted to is treated as the + first parent side when rebase/cherry-pick call the merge machinery + + * All merges are fully automatic +
Did you mean that "fully automatic" merges are merges that can be done without conflicts? -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
