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?