[WISH] git-rerere handling delete/modify conflicts [Was: Re: [GIT PULL] ARM irqchip consolidation]

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:23:19PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:23:48AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > I've collected patches converting GIC and VIC based platforms to use the
> > MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER configuration option in a single branch (as they depend
> > on a common patch).
> > 
> > It also include the patch adding non-banked support to the GIC, which is
> > required to convert EXYNOS to MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER in a sane way (not to
> > mention fixing obvious bugs).
> > 
> > If you're happy with this, feel free to pull this branch.
> 
> We need to sort out the conflicts between this and the arch_reset stuff
> I'm carrying, because I'm not going to fight git from this early in the
> cycle, dealing with stuff like this:
> 
> CONFLICT (delete/modify): arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/omap4-common.h deleted in HEAD and modified in devel-stable. Version devel-stable of arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/omap4-common.h left in tree.
> 
> which is immune to git rerere, and I'm sure as hell not going to keep on
> merging this with my for-next branch.
> 
> Even though I've split out the conflicting cleanup commits from the
> arch_reset() stuff, many of them still don't have acked-bys from the
> maintainers of the affected code, so I don't feel like I can commit
> them to being stable.
> 
> What we need are more responsive platform maintainers!
and git rerere handling delete/modify conflicts. I don't know how it
works internally, but I guess it's not trivial? Just in case it is and
the only thing that stops you implementing it is that you don't know
there is a need for it: voilà.

Thanks
Uwe

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