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| -rw-r--r-- | merge-recursive.c | 19 |
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diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c index 306db8eaf5..cedb7c3772 100644 --- a/merge-recursive.c +++ b/merge-recursive.c @@ -513,6 +513,25 @@ static void record_df_conflict_files(struct merge_options *o, struct rename { struct diff_filepair *pair; + /* + * Purpose of src_entry and dst_entry: + * + * If 'before' is renamed to 'after' then src_entry will contain + * the versions of 'before' from the merge_base, HEAD, and MERGE in + * stages 1, 2, and 3; dst_entry will contain the respective + * versions of 'after' in corresponding locations. Thus, we have a + * total of six modes and oids, though some will be null. (Stage 0 + * is ignored; we're interested in handling conflicts.) + * + * Since we don't turn on break-rewrites by default, neither + * src_entry nor dst_entry can have all three of their stages have + * non-null oids, meaning at most four of the six will be non-null. + * Also, since this is a rename, both src_entry and dst_entry will + * have at least one non-null oid, meaning at least two will be + * non-null. Of the six oids, a typical rename will have three be + * non-null. Only two implies a rename/delete, and four implies a + * rename/add. + */ struct stage_data *src_entry; struct stage_data *dst_entry; unsigned processed:1; |