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Subject: Re: More merge questions
From: Junio C Hamano <junkio () cox ! net>
Date: 2005-11-30 20:23:50
Message-ID: 7vek4xsx49.fsf () assigned-by-dhcp ! cox ! net
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linux@horizon.com writes:
> 3) This says that if stage1 and state3 exist, use stage3.
> 3-way says if they're equal, delete the file, while if they're
> unequal, it's fail.
>
> Given that it all matches up so nicely, I'd like to honestly ask if
> case 3 of the conditions is correct. I'd think that if I deleted
> a file form te index, and the file wasn't changed on the head I'm
> tracking, the right resolution is to keep it deleted. Why override
> my deletion?
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but it's not obvious to me.
Funny that I asked exactly the same question when it was done
first:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111804744926989
It was a question about then-current code, so other cases might
have been changed/corrected/enhanced since then, but I believe
the behaviour for the case in question here stays the same til
this day, and the response from Linus to that article still
applies.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111807024201485
I'll quote only the punch line here, but the whole thing is
worth a read if you want to understand how this evolved and
what the design choices and decisions were:
Right. We didn't lose anything hugely important.
In theory this could be a delete that we've missed, and we could add a
flag to actually reject this case. However, it's always easy to "recover"
deletes (just delete it again ;), so the loss of information is absolutely
minimal, and it allows starting from an empty index file.
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