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plain rerere performs three tasks; let us consider how the new merge.renormalize option should apply to each. After an unsuccessful merge, rerere records conflict hunks from the work tree under .git/rr-cache. If the merge was performed with merge.renormalize enabled, both sides of the conflict hunk use the current work tree’s end-of-line and smudge rules; there is not really much of a choice. After a successful manual resolution, rerere records the postimage. Here, also, the file will be in the current work tree’s canonical format and there is not much to do about it. When encountering that conflict again, merge looks up the preimage and postimage using the conflict hunk as a key and runs a three-way merge to apply that resolution to the work tree. Since the conflict hunk used the current work tree’s canonical format, chances are the version in the work tree, the preimage, and the postimage will, too. In fact using the merge.renormalize machinery is exactly the wrong thing to do, since its result has been run through convert_to_git and therefore is not suitable for writing to the work tree. The only affected caller is "git merge". NEEDSWORK: lacks test Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.
It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of
hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
commandname".
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
installed).
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/
including full documentation and Git related tools.
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org. To subscribe
to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites.
The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
reference for project status, development direction and
remaining tasks.