-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Junio C Hamano on 12/18/2007 11:40 PM: > Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Looking closer at .dotest/0001, the diff is indeed invalid, containing the >> single line > > That dataflow loses NUL. Fixing > rebase not to reuse the e-mailed patch dataflow is on my to-do list, but > has been slipping. > > I think you can use "rebase -m" to work this issue around. Indeed, after learning about git-rebase -m and git-mergetool, adding the merge option alongside the diff option for the file in question, and teaching emacs that it should use emerge-diff-options "-a" so that it can handle embedded NUL, I was finally able to use git-mergetool to do a sane merge of the differences in the mostly-text file. Thanks! But it raised some additional issues: Is there a way to specify custom merge tools, rather than the current hard-coded list valid for merge.tool? For example, what if I prefer emacs' ediff driver over its emerge driver? Using merge.tool of emerge leaves junk around when the merge is aborted. Before I edited emacs' emerge-diff-options, the subsidiary diff3 was failing because it treated the file to merge as binary even though git was trying to treat it as text. As a result, emerge left behind all of its command-line argument files (file.{BASE,LOCAL,REMOTE}.pid), and git did not clean any of them up. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaShk84KuGfSFAYARAkDtAJ0XhhhbeJZJS6td3/aeOlxd7iuoawCgiVY6 3s+aMxRO1vjKf/EqncKW2jE= =GrcF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html