xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM

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>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-17 19:07:40 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent f407f14dea
commit ee95ec5d58
4 changed files with 39 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int cmd_merge_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
ret = xdl_merge(mmfs + 1, mmfs + 0, names[0], mmfs + 2, names[2],
&xpp, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS, &result);
&xpp, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, &result);
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
free(mmfs[i].ptr);