Re: [PATCH] xdl_merge(): fix a segmentation fault when refining conflicts

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2006-12-31 12:09:55
Hi,

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Of course, you can hit mismerges like the illustrated one _without_ 
> > being marked as conflict (e.g. if the chunk of identical code is _not_ 
> > added, but only the increments), but we should at least avoid them 
> > where possible.
> 
> Perhaps you could make it even more conservating merge conflicts option 
> (to tighten merge conflicts even more) to xdl_merge, but not used by 
> default because as it removes accidental conflicts it increases 
> mismerges (falsely not conflicted).

There is no way to do this sanely. If you want to catch these mismerges, 
you have to mark _all_ modifications as conflicting.

Ciao,
Dscho

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