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authorJerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>2021-04-07 19:13:44 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-04-07 22:20:33 -0700
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git-apply: allow simultaneous --cached and --3way options
"git apply" does not allow "--cached" and "--3way" to be used together, since "--3way" writes conflict markers into the working tree. Allow "git apply" to accept "--cached" and "--3way" at the same time. When a single file auto-resolves cleanly, the result is placed in the index at stage #0 and the command exits with 0 status. For a file that has a conflict which cannot be cleanly auto-resolved, the original contents from common ancestor (stage conflict at the content level, and the command exists with non-zero status, because there is no place (like the working tree) to leave a half-resolved merge for the user to resolve. The user can use `git diff` to view the contents of the conflict, or `git checkout -m -- .` to regenerate the conflict markers in the working directory. Don't attempt rerere in this case since it depends on conflict markers written to file for its database storage and lookup. There would be two main changes required to get rerere working: 1. Allow the rerere api to accept in memory object rather than files, which would allow us to pass in the conflict markers contained in the result from ll_merge(). 2. Rerere can't write to the working directory, so it would have to apply the result to cache stage #0 directly. A flag would be needed to control this. Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 9144575299..aa1ae56a25 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ OPTIONS
Attempt 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed
to apply to and we have those blobs available locally, possibly leaving the
conflict markers in the files in the working tree for the user to
- resolve. This option implies the `--index` option, and is incompatible
- with the `--reject` and the `--cached` options.
+ resolve. This option implies the `--index` option unless the
+ `--cached` option is used, and is incompatible with the `--reject` option.
+ When used with the `--cached` option, any conflicts are left at higher stages
+ in the cache.
--build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
Newer 'git diff' output has embedded 'index information'