Re: RFC: Merge tracking, conflicts, and obstructions

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Burba
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:25PM -0400, Paul Burba wrote: >> One alternative would be to stop nesting conflicts if merge tracking >> is active and treat existing conflicts as obstructions.  Using the >> existing merge tracking infrastruct

Re: RFC: Merge tracking, conflicts, and obstructions

2011-07-06 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:23:25PM -0400, Paul Burba wrote: > One alternative would be to stop nesting conflicts if merge tracking > is active and treat existing conflicts as obstructions. Using the > existing merge tracking infrastructure for marking skipped subtrees as > untouched by a merge, we

RFC: Merge tracking, conflicts, and obstructions

2011-07-06 Thread Paul Burba
On IRC Bert has asked me on a couple occasions if merge tracking should treat exiting conflicts as obstructions. In 1.6 and currently in trunk, if an existing conflict is encountered during a merge we raise another conflict. For example: 1) We perform a merge that results in a conflict: 1.7.0