2011/3/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:57:06AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > 2011/3/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> > > > > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:39:11AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > > 2011/3/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> > > > > > This could have worked, if the first merge of the end of January > did > > > not > > > > > have > > > > > any rename. It had renames, and due to this, the last merge attempt > > > > > complained > > > > > about this like this: > > > > > WARNING - no common ancestor: file1 > > > > > WARNING - no common ancestor: file2 > > > > > WARNING - no common ancestor: file3 > > > > > WARNING - no common ancestor: file4 > > > > > .... > > > > > > > > > Without --baseline, merge uses the nearest common ancestor, as determined > by > > the same algorithm used for test-find-pivot. The test-find-pivot command > is > > (as its name suggests) a test procedure used to test and debug the > algorithm > > for finding the nearest common ancestor. > Ah, the test-shortest-path may be for the bisect. I mixed things. > > > So you are saying that test-find-pivot is not finding the ancestor you > think > > it ought to be finding? > > Maybe the problem is in the handling of renames, then, and I mixed all with > the > 'shortest-path' algorithm, which may have played no role. Sorry for this > noise. > > So no wonder that with --baseline or without it, it behaves the same. > "test-find-pivot" finds properly the ancestor, but I don't understand why > it > thinks there is no common ancestor for those files. >
There is an undocumented --debug option to "merge" that provides additional information about how the merge is trying to deal with name changes and whatnot. > > > A trunk > c4 | <= At this point we're running "fossil merge trunk", saying > those WARNINGS > | ... > | | > | | > c3 | <= the rename got into the branch A through "fossil merge trunk" > \ | > |\ | > | \__c3 <= Common ancestor found by test-find-pivot > | | > | | > | | > | c2 <= rename of files > \ | > \ | > \ | > \_c1 > > Do you see what may be going wronG? > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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