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2008-03-03t3903-stash.sh: Add tests for new stash commands drop and popLibravatar Brandon Casey1-1/+45
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-03t3903-stash.sh: Add missing '&&' to body of testcaseLibravatar Brandon Casey1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-03Merge commit '74359821' into js/reflog-deleteLibravatar Junio C Hamano19-32/+865
* commit '74359821': (128 commits) tests: introduce test_must_fail Fix builtin checkout crashing when given an invalid path templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation Start preparing for 1.5.4.4 format-patch: remove a leftover debugging message completion: support format-patch's --cover-letter option Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression git-svn: Don't prompt for client cert password everytime. git.el: Do not display empty directories. Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIR Add testcase for 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' with relative $GIT_DIR Prompt to continue when editing during rebase --interactive Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones. git-p4: Support usage of perforce client spec git-p4: git-p4 submit cleanups. git-p4: Removed git-p4 submit --direct. git-p4: Clean up git-p4 submit's log message handling. ...
2008-02-29tests: introduce test_must_failLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+21
When we expect a git command to notice and signal errors, we carelessly wrote in our tests: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && ! git command ' but a non-zero exit could come from the "git command" segfaulting. A new helper function "tset_must_fail" is introduced and it is meant to be used to make sure the command gracefully fails (iow, dying and exiting with non zero status is counted as a failure to "gracefully fail"). The above example should be written as: test_expect_success 'reject bogus request' ' do something && do something else && test_must_fail git command ' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+0
* maint: Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIR Add testcase for 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' with relative $GIT_DIR Prompt to continue when editing during rebase --interactive Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones. Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remote Conflicts: t/t9001-send-email.sh t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
2008-02-27Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failureLibravatar Carl Worth1-1/+1
This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to be on for the bisect she is starting). The simplest way to eliminate the confusion is to just make "git bisect start" do the cleanup itself. There's no significant loss of safety here since we already have a general safety in the form of the reflog. Note: We preserve the warning for any cogito users. We do this by switching from .git/head-name to .git/BISECT_START for the extra state, (which is a more descriptive name anyway). Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27send-email: fix In-Reply-To regressionLibravatar Jay Soffian1-0/+21
Fix a regression introduced by 1ca3d6e (send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to "") where if the user was prompted for an initial In-Reply-To and didn't provide one, messages would be sent out with an invalid In-Reply-To of "<>" Also add test cases for the regression and the fix. A small modification was needed to allow send-email to take its replies from stdin if the environment variable GIT_SEND_EMAIL_NOTTY is set. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Merge branch 'js/branch-track'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+45
* js/branch-track: doc: documentation update for the branch track changes branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-branch.txt Documentation/git-checkout.txt builtin-branch.c cache.h t/t7201-co.sh
2008-02-27Merge branch 'db/checkout'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-16/+75
* db/checkout: (21 commits) checkout: error out when index is unmerged even with -m checkout: show progress when checkout takes long time while switching branches Add merge-subtree back checkout: updates to tracking report builtin-checkout.c: Remove unused prefix arguments in switch_branches path checkout: work from a subdirectory checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messages Clean up reporting differences on branch switch builtin-checkout.c: fix possible usage segfault checkout: notice when the switched branch is behind or forked Build in checkout Move code to clean up after a branch change to branch.c Library function to check for unmerged index entries Use diff -u instead of diff in t7201 Move create_branch into a library file Build-in merge-recursive Add "skip_unmerged" option to unpack_trees. Discard "deleted" cache entries after using them to update the working tree Send unpack-trees debugging output to stderr Add flag to make unpack_trees() not print errors. ... Conflicts: Makefile
2008-02-27Merge branch 'db/cover-letter'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-0/+214
* db/cover-letter: Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter Add API access to shortlog t4014: Replace sed's non-standard 'Q' by standard 'q' Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch Combine To: and Cc: headers Fix format.headers not ending with a newline Add tests for extra headers in format-patch Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch Export some email and pretty-printing functions Improve message-id generation flow control for format-patch Add more tests for format-patch Conflicts: builtin-log.c builtin-shortlog.c pretty.c
2008-02-27Merge branch 'js/merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
* js/merge: xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM xdl_merge(): make XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS output simpler
2008-02-27Merge branch 'cw/bisect'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* cw/bisect: Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure
2008-02-27Merge branch 'gp/hash-stdin'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+35
* gp/hash-stdin: hash-object: cleanup handling of command line options
2008-02-27Merge branch 'db/push-single-with-HEAD'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
* db/push-single-with-HEAD: Resolve value supplied for no-colon push refspecs
2008-02-27Merge branch 'db/host-alias'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+31
* db/host-alias: url rewriting: take longest and first match Add support for url aliases in config files Use ALLOC_GROW in remote.{c,h}
2008-02-27Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIRLibravatar Johan Herland1-1/+1
When using the '-w $cvsdir' option to cvsexportcommit, it will chdir into $cvsdir before executing several other git commands. If $GIT_DIR is set to a relative path (e.g. '.'), the git commands executed by cvsexportcommit will naturally fail. Therefore, ensure that $GIT_DIR is absolute before the chdir to $cvsdir. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Add testcase for 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' with relative $GIT_DIRLibravatar Johan Herland1-1/+17
The testcase verifies that 'git cvsexportcommit' functions correctly when the '-w' option is used, and GIT_DIR is set to a relative path (e.g. '.'). Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remoteLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-3/+0
For some reason, t5505-remote was setting GIT_CONFIG to .git/config and exporting it. This should have been no-op, as test framework did the same for a long time anyway. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-26Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
* maint: Documentation/git-am.txt: Pass -r in the example invocation of rm -f .dotest timezone_names[]: fixed the tz offset for New Zealand. filter-branch documentation: non-zero exit status in command abort the filter rev-parse: fix potential bus error with --parseopt option spec handling Use a single implementation and API for copy_file() Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example Correct fast-export file mode strings to match fast-import standard
2008-02-25rev-parse: fix potential bus error with --parseopt option spec handlingLibravatar Jay Soffian1-0/+43
A non-empty line containing no spaces should be treated by --parseopt as an option group header, but was causing a bus error. Also added a test script for rev-parse --parseopt. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-25Add tests for filesystem challenges (case and unicode normalization)Libravatar Steffen Prohaska1-0/+93
Git has difficulties on file systems that do not properly distinguish case or modify filenames in unexpected ways. The two major examples are Windows and Mac OS X. Both systems preserve case of file names but do not distinguish between filenames that differ only by case. Simple operations such as "git mv" or "git merge" can fail unexpectedly. In addition, Mac OS X normalizes unicode, which make git's life even harder. This commit adds tests that currently fail but should pass if file system as decribed above are fully supported. The test need to be run on Windows and Mac X as they already pass on Linux. Mitch Tishmack is the original author of the tests for unicode normalization. [jc: fixed-up so that it will use test_expect_success to test on sanely behaving filesystems.] Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24Add support for url aliases in config filesLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+31
This allows users with different preferences for access methods to the same remote repositories to rewrite each other's URLs by pattern matching across a large set of similiarly set up repositories to each get the desired access. For example, if you don't have a kernel.org account, you might want settings like: [url "git://git.kernel.org/pub/"] insteadOf = master.kernel.org:/pub Then, if you give git a URL like: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git it will act like you gave it: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git and you can cut-and-paste pull requests in email without fixing them by hand, for example. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24send-email: test compose functionalityLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+29
This is just a basic sanity check that --compose works at all. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24t9001: enhance fake sendmail test harnessLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+15
Previously, the fake.sendmail test harness would write its output to a hardcoded file, allowing only a single message to be tested. Instead, let's have it save the messages for all of its invocations so that we can see which messages were sent, and in which order. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failureLibravatar Carl Worth1-1/+1
This error message is very confusing---it doesn't tell the user anything about how to fix the situation. And the actual fix for the situation ("git bisect reset") does a checkout of a potentially random branch, (compared to what the user wants to be on for the bisect she is starting). The simplest way to eliminate the confusion is to just make "git bisect start" do the cleanup itself. There's no significant loss of safety here since we already have a general safety in the form of the reflog. Note: We preserve the warning for any cogito users. We do this by switching from .git/head-name to .git/BISECT_START for the extra state, (which is a more descriptive name anyway). Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24Merge branch 'jc/apply-whitespace'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-0/+200
* jc/apply-whitespace: ws_fix_copy(): move the whitespace fixing function to ws.c apply: do not barf on patch with too large an offset core.whitespace: cr-at-eol git-apply --whitespace=fix: fix whitespace fuzz introduced by previous run builtin-apply.c: pass ws_rule down to match_fragment() builtin-apply.c: move copy_wsfix() function a bit higher. builtin-apply.c: do not feed copy_wsfix() leading '+' builtin-apply.c: simplify calling site to apply_line() builtin-apply.c: clean-up apply_one_fragment() builtin-apply.c: mark common context lines in lineinfo structure. builtin-apply.c: optimize match_beginning/end processing a bit. builtin-apply.c: make it more line oriented builtin-apply.c: push match-beginning/end logic down builtin-apply.c: restructure "offset" matching builtin-apply.c: refactor small part that matches context
2008-02-23t4014: Replace sed's non-standard 'Q' by standard 'q'Libravatar Steffen Prohaska1-4/+4
t4014 test used GNU extension 'Q' in its sed scripts, but the uses can safely be replaced with 'q'. Among other platforms, sed on Mac OS X 10.4 does not accept the former. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-23Add merge-subtree backLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+32
An earlier commit e1b3a2c (Build-in merge-recursive) made the subtree merge strategy backend unavailable. This resurrects it. A new test t6029 currently only tests the strategy is available, but it should be enhanced to check the real "subtree" case. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-22Merge branch 'bc/reflog-fix' into js/reflog-deleteLibravatar Junio C Hamano159-733/+6954
* bc/reflog-fix: (1490 commits) builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure hash: fix lookup_hash semantics gitweb: Better chopping in commit search results builtin-tag.c: remove cruft git-merge-index documentation: clarify synopsis send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression git-reset --hard and git-read-tree --reset: fix read_cache_unmerged() Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l diff: fix java funcname pattern for solaris t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh git_config_*: don't assume we are parsing a config file prefix_path: use is_absolute_path() instead of *orig == '/' git-clean: handle errors if removing files fails Clarified the meaning of git-add -u in the documentation git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling git.el: Set process-environment instead of invoking env Documentation/git-stash: document options for git stash list send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to "" cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all. ... Conflicts: Documentation/git-reflog.txt t/t1410-reflog.sh
2008-02-22hash-object: cleanup handling of command line optionsLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-0/+35
git hash-object used to process the --stdin command line argument before reading subsequent arguments. This caused 'git hash-object --stdin -w' to fail to actually write the object into the database, while '-w --stdin' properly did. Now git hash-object first reads all arguments, and then processes them. This regresses one insane use case. git hash-object used to allow multiple --stdin arguments on the command line: $ git hash-object --stdin --stdin foo ^D bar ^D Now git hash-object errors out if --stdin is given more than once. Reported by Josh Triplett through http://bugs.debian.org/464432 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-21send-email: fix In-Reply-To regressionLibravatar Jay Soffian1-0/+21
Fix a regression introduced by 1ca3d6e (send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to "") where if the user was prompted for an initial In-Reply-To and didn't provide one, messages would be sent out with an invalid In-Reply-To of "<>" Also add test cases for the regression and the fix. A small modification was needed to allow send-email to take its replies from stdin if the environment variable GIT_SEND_EMAIL_NOTTY is set. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-21git-reset --hard and git-read-tree --reset: fix read_cache_unmerged()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+46
When invalidating unmerged entries in the index, we used to set their ce_mode to 0 to note the fact that they do not matter anymore which also made sure that later unpack_trees() call would not reuse them. Instead just remove them from the index. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/shLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
The fake-editor shell script invoked /bin/sh; normally this is fine, unless the /bin/sh doesn't meet our compatibility requirements, as is the case with Solaris. Specifically, the $() syntax used by fake-editor is not understood. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20git-clean: handle errors if removing files failsLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+10
git-clean simply ignored errors if removing a file or directory failed. This patch makes it raise a warning and the exit code also greater than zero if there are remaining files. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20Merge branch 'js/maint-cvsexport'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+35
* js/maint-cvsexport: cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments Conflicts: t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
2008-02-20Merge branch 'jk/empty-tree'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+69
* jk/empty-tree: add--interactive: handle initial commit better hard-code the empty tree object
2008-02-20Merge branch 'jc/setup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+202
* jc/setup: builtin-mv: minimum fix to avoid losing files git-add: adjust to the get_pathspec() changes. Make blame accept absolute paths setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec()
2008-02-20Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* maint: Clarified the meaning of git-add -u in the documentation git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling Documentation/git-stash: document options for git stash list send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to ""
2008-02-20checkout: work from a subdirectoryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
When switching branches from a subdirectory, checkout rewritten in C extracted the toplevel of the tree in there. This should fix it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is danglingLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-0/+8
When cloning a remote repository which's HEAD refers to a nonexistent ref, git-clone cloned all existing refs, but failed to write the configuration for 'remote'. Now it detects the dangling remote HEAD, refuses to checkout any local branch since HEAD refers to nowhere, but properly writes the configuration for 'remote', so that subsequent 'git fetch's don't fail. The problem was reported by Daniel Jacobowitz through http://bugs.debian.org/466581 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20Resolve value supplied for no-colon push refspecsLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+43
When pushing a refspec like "HEAD", we used to treat it as "HEAD:HEAD", which didn't work without rewriting. Instead, we should resolve the ref. If it's a symref, further require it to point to a branch, to avoid doing anything especially unexpected. Also remove the rewriting previously added in builtin-push. Since the code for "HEAD" uses the regular refspec parsing, it automatically handles "+HEAD" without anything special. [jc: added a further test to make sure that "remote.*.push = HEAD" works] Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the argumentsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+35
In my use cases, "cvs status" sometimes reordered the passed filenames, which often led to a misdetection of a dirty state (when it was in reality a clean state). I finally tracked it down to two filenames having the same basename. So no longer trust the order of the results blindly, but actually check the file name. Since "cvs status" only returns the basename (and the complete path on the server which is useless for our purposes), run "cvs status" several times with lists consisting of files with unique (chomped) basenames. Be a bit clever about new files: these are reported as "no file <blabla>", so in order to discern it from existing files, prepend "no file " to the basename. In other words, one call to "cvs status" will not ask for two files "blabla" (which does not yet exist) and "no file blabla" (which exists). This patch makes cvsexportcommit slightly slower, when the list of changed files has non-unique basenames, but at least it is accurate now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patchLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+8
When you have particular reviewers you want to sent particular series to, it's nice to be able to generate the whole series with them as additional recipients, without configuring them into your general headers or adding them by hand afterwards. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Combine To: and Cc: headersLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-1/+1
RFC 2822 only permits a single To: header and a single Cc: header, so we need to turn multiple values of each of these into a list. This will be particularly significant with a command-line option to add Cc: headers, where the user can't make sure to configure valid header sets in any easy way. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Fix format.headers not ending with a newlineLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-1/+1
Now each value of format.headers will always be treated as a single valid header, and newlines will be inserted between them as needed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Add tests for extra headers in format-patchLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+34
Presently, it works with each header ending with a newline, but not without the newlines. Also add a test to see that multiple "To:" headers get combined. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Add a --cover-letter option to format-patchLibravatar Daniel Barkalow3-0/+127
If --cover-letter is provided, generate a cover letter message before the patches, numbered 0. Original patch thanks to Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branchesLibravatar Jay Soffian2-1/+45
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the tracking configuration), but now it correctly does. The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to "always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line. Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches. Includes test cases for the new functionality. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Add more tests for format-patchLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+45
Tests -o, and an excessively long subject, and --thread, with and without --in-reply-to= Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-18xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUMLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+10
When a merge conflicts, there are often common lines that are not really common, such as empty lines or lines containing a single curly bracket. With XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, we use the following heuristics: when a hunk does not contain any letters or digits, it is treated as conflicting. In other words, a conflict which used to look like this: <<<<<<< a = 1; ======= output(); >>>>>>> } } } <<<<<<< output(); ======= b = 1; >>>>>>> will look like this with ZEALOUS_ALNUM: <<<<<<< a = 1; } } } output(); ======= output(); } } } b = 1; >>>>>>> To demonstrate this, git-merge-file has been switched from XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS to XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>