Re: git pre-commit hook for merges (WAS: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make)

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/11/2017 09:25 AM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Perhaps we should change the hook so that it doesn't complain about
> problems from merges?

Something like that might make sense, yes, for people in Alan's 
situation. When I do a merge, though, I'd rather see problems from the 
other side (so that I can fix them). How about an environment variable 
that captures the user's preference?

> +# If we're merging, don't flag problems that came from the other side
> +# of the merge.
> +head=HEAD
> +if [ -f "$GIT_DIR"/MERGE_HEAD ] ; then
> +    head=$(cat "$GIT_DIR"/MERGE_HEAD)
> +fi

This won't work if MERGE_HEAD file contains more than one entry, which 
can happen when doing a 3- or more-way merge. How about the attached 
(untested) patch instead? It behaves the way that you suggested, when 
doing a 2-way merge and when the GIT_MERGE_BLINDLY environment variable 
is set to 'true'. Offhand I don't see a way of supporting 3- or more-way 
merges easily, so this patch punts and ignores GIT_MERGE_BLINDLY when 
doing fancier merges.

0001-Allow-bypassing-of-some-checks-when-merging.patch
Description: Source code patch