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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: merge conflict tedium
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:00:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lly37w9r19.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)


Hi,

I have set up automatic merging of the emacs-26 branch to master some
time ago. I feel like I quite often have to intervene due to needless
merge conflicts that can't be resolved automatically but could have been
avoided with a little effort.

Today's problems were caused by:
1) 08840f2
Unlabelled backport of a year old commit from master?
Adding an explicit "backport" or "cherry-pick" message to the commit would
have avoided this.

2) 536e6de and 13b586d, and b513feb
Conceptually the same commit (?), but made on different branches without
any indication, coupled with a simultaneous reformat on master. Changing
the same code on multiple branches at the same time is a PITA. Please
merge it yourself if doing that.

End of complaint! :)



             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07 20:00 Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-01-07 20:59 ` merge conflict tedium Michael Albinus
2019-01-07 21:10   ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-11  1:06     ` Glenn Morris
2019-01-14 16:39       ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-08  0:57   ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-11  1:05     ` Glenn Morris

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