change/delete conflicts and explicit merge tools
Siddharth Agarwal
sid at less-broken.com
Fri Nov 13 21:23:37 CST 2015
On 11/13/15 17:17, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
> I agree that the current behavior (a) is broken, we should not just
> pick a random side and declare the merge successful.
>
> +1 for "leave unresolved"
>
> I think I lean toward (c) prompt instead of (b) fail. Because
> requiring all user to got through `hg resolve --tool` seems like bad
> idea. This seems far to complicated to get basic user out of troubles,
> we'll loose people in the process.
So for interactive merges we continue to prompt, and for non-interactive
merges we prompt but then say 'l' for 'leave unresolved'. This is still
a behavior change, but likely one for the better.
I think that sounds reasonable.
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