Branko Čibej wrote on Sun, 27 Aug 2017 02:09 +0200:
> On 27.08.2017 02:04, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > P.S. I think brane's suggestion would make the "edit patch #2 in a 5-patch 
> > series"
> > use-case a lot easier: diff3 is exactly the right tool for rebasing patch 
> > #3 on top
> > of the edited #2.
> 
> Yes, that's one of the reasons I proposed storing whole files instead of
> patches. Rebasing and reordering would become much simpler (although not
> exactly "simple" if we take tree restructuring into account).

The part with tree restructuring would "simply" require a working diff3
implementation for tree changes.  Isn't that exactly what the tree
conflicts work is supposed to produce?

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