Thanks to Elijah for his comments on V1. I've updated the commit message of patch 2 as he suggested. The rest of the patches are unchanged. V1 Cover Letter: I tried to squash some fixup commits with "git merge-tree --stdin" and found that my script deadlocked because the output of "git merge-tree" is not flushed after each merge. The first patch fixes that and the rest are cleanups I noticed while reading the code and documentation. This series is based on maint. Phillip Wood (5): merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock merge-tree: remove redundant code merge-tree: only use basic merge config merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt | 11 ++++++++--- builtin/merge-tree.c | 11 +++++------ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) base-commit: f93ff170b93a1782659637824b25923245ac9dd1 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1862%2Fphillipwood%2Fmerge-tree-flush-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1862/phillipwood/merge-tree-flush-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1862 Range-diff vs v1: 1: 3b317978509 = 1: 3b317978509 merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock 2: 16fec87766f ! 2: 63b09dbe1b7 merge-tree: remove redundant code @@ Commit message real_merge() only ever returns "0" or "1" as it dies if the merge status is less than zero. Therefore the check for "result < 0" is redundant and - the result variable is not needed. + the result variable is not needed. The return value of real_merge() is + ignored because exit status of "git merge-tree --stdin" is "0" for both + successful and conflicted merges (the status of each merge is written to + stdout). The return type of real_merge() is not changed as it is used + for the program's exit status when "--stdin" is not given. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3: bf1dc603a15 = 3: f95a15a4203 merge-tree: only use basic merge config 4: 4c416850634 = 4: 1645b0e747e merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin 5: 89722894c87 = 5: a0179820092 merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs -- gitgitgadget
