When you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, many commands that
our scripts feed "HEAD" to would complain about the rev vs path
ambiguity. A solution is to form command line more carefully by
appending -- to them, which makes it clear that we mean HEAD rev not
HEAD file.
This patch would apply to maint.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This simplifies the shell code, reduces its memory footprint, and
speeds things up. The performance improvements should be noticable
when git-rebase works on big commits.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-merge expects this check to be done appropriately by the
merge strategy backends. In the case of merge-ours strategy,
the resulting tree comes what we have in the index file, so it
must match the current HEAD; otherwise it would not be "ours"
merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds the coolest merge strategy ever, "ours". It can take
arbitrary number of foreign heads and merge them into the
current branch, with the resulting tree always taken from our
branch head, hence its name.
What this means is that you can declare that the current branch
supersedes the development histories of other branches using
this merge strategy.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
