retitle 659239 Disable interactive merge edits
affects 659255 git-buildpackage
thanks

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:59:33AM -0500, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: git-buildpackage
> Version: 0.5.32
> Severity: normal
> 
> On conflict situation the latest git-buildpackage tries to start
> EDITOR:
> 
>     ...
>     gbp:debug: git ['merge', 'upstream/0.1.14', '--no-summary'] []
>     Auto-merging src/x11.cc
>     Removing src/PScreen.hh
>     Processing '/etc/joe/jmacsrc'...Processing '/etc/joe/ftyperc'...done
>     done
>     cm=(nil) ch=(nil) cv=(nil) ho=(nil) lf=0x909aafc DO=(nil) ll=(nil) 
> up=(nil) UP=(nil) cr=0x909ab00
>     Sorry, your terminal can't do absolute cursor positioning.
>     It's broken
>     error: There was a problem with the editor '/usr/bin/jmacs -nonotice 
> -nobackups -noxon -asis'.
>     Not committing merge; use 'git commit' to complete the merge.
>     gbp:error: git returned 1
>     gbp:error: Couldn't merge from "upstream/0.1.14"
>     gbp:error: Merge failed, please resolve.
>     gbp:debug: rm ['-rf', '../tmpyS9Gn8'] []
> 
> Please return to the old behavior, where the conflicts are simply
> reported.
> 
> In this case the upgrade was run inside Emacs shell (M-x shell), so
> obviously git-buildpackage cannot open another program inside it.
> 
> Besides, there may be numerous conflicts.
> 
> It is better to get list of problems first and not to be forced to
> work immediately one-by-one.
The problem doesn't seem to be the merge conflict but rather that we're
merging an annotated tag. Do you agree?
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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