Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Stefan Reichör <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> We should perhaps change the default to 'update.
>
> "merge" has the big advantage of being able to report conflicts as
> inline markers (but that's not mandatory). That's what most people
> want, and in particular, that's what beginners want, so, I think
> that's a reasonable default. There are corner-cases where update is
> better, but the expert user can choose.

The place where I use it often is the *missing* buffer.
There we have the commands 
* M u : update
* M s : star-merge

When tla-update-strategy is not update, the M u command runs that
instead. That was confusing for me. That was also the reason for me to
set that variable to 'update.

>> Because that is available for tla and baz.
>
> "merge" is also available for tla, it's just called "star-merge", and
> a bit less powerfull. (see above message, I'll fix this)

Stefan.

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