Hi Ingo,
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > * Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Wondering why Git allowed me to be so stupid with those leftover merge
>> >> > markers.
>> >> > Git usually doesn't even allow me to commit them so I have these tuned
>> >> > out as a
>> >> > possibility. This was just a regular git rebase -i flow, to back-merge
>> >> > fixes and
>> >> > reorder/squash patches - nothing fancy that I remember - only the
>> >> > occasional
>> >> > --onto option. I'm using Git 2.7.4.
>> >>
>> >> Git complains about the merge conflicts, and refuses to commit the result
>> >> as long as you haven't resolved them, but it will happily commit
>> >> everything
>> >> you add using "git add -u", incl. merge markers.
>> >
>> > Hm, it should really force that via 'git add -f' or such. The merge
>> > markers are
>> > _very_ infrequent as naturally occuring source code lines even on a per
>> > line basis
>> > - and especially the combination of them should be exceedingly unique.
>>
>> They were very infrequent, until we switched to RST for documentation,
>> causing false positives when searching for "^[<=>].*" in vim...
>
> But the exact merge conflict pattern is generated by Git, and it's far more
> specific than the "^[<=>].*" pattern, right?
Sure, but my fingers have memorized the above pattern ;-)
> So it should be possible to disambiguate?
Except for the cases where there are exactly 7 consecutive equals signs
at the beginning of a line in the RST sources.
>> > I frequently use:
>> >
>> > git add $(git ls-files -m)
>>
>> That's identical to "git add -u", right?
>
> Indeed, I'm bad at remembering one letter shortcuts: why is what is '-m' in
> git-ls-files called '-u' in git-add? ;-)
>
> BTW., would 'git add -u' have prevented my mistake?
No, AFAIK.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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