Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > No, I think your reasoning makes sense. But I also think we've already > choosen to have "--continue" mean "conclude the current, and continue if > there is anything left" in other contexts (e.g., a single-item > cherry-pick). It's more vague, but I think it

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-10 Thread Jacob Keller
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:49:13PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > >> > There is nothing to "continue" in a stopped merge where Git asked >> > for help from the user, and because of that, I view the final "git >> > commit" as

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-10 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:49:13PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > > There is nothing to "continue" in a stopped merge where Git asked > > for help from the user, and because of that, I view the final "git > > commit" as "concluding the merge", not "continuing". "continue" > > makes quite a lot of

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-10 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:16:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > It seems like that would be in line with 35d2fffdb (Provide 'git merge > > --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge', 2010-11-09), whose stated > > goal was providing consistency with other multi-command operations. > > > > I

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-10 Thread Chris Packham
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > >>> They knew about git rebase --continue (and git am and git cherry-pick) >>> but they were unsure how to "continue" a merge (it didn't help that >>> the advice saying to use 'git

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: >> They knew about git rebase --continue (and git am and git cherry-pick) >> but they were unsure how to "continue" a merge (it didn't help that >> the advice saying to use 'git commit' was scrolling off the top of the >> terminal). I know that using 'git commit'

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-09 Thread Jacob Keller
On December 9, 2016 1:11:27 AM PST, Jeff King wrote: >On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 08:57:58PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > >> I hit this at $dayjob recently. >> >> A developer had got themselves into a confused state when needing to >> resolve a merge conflict. >> >> They knew about

Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-09 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 08:57:58PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > I hit this at $dayjob recently. > > A developer had got themselves into a confused state when needing to > resolve a merge conflict. > > They knew about git rebase --continue (and git am and git cherry-pick) > but they were unsure

Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

2016-12-08 Thread Chris Packham
I hit this at $dayjob recently. A developer had got themselves into a confused state when needing to resolve a merge conflict. They knew about git rebase --continue (and git am and git cherry-pick) but they were unsure how to "continue" a merge (it didn't help that the advice saying to use 'git