[vtk-developers] Strange repo happenings with vtkOpenGLProjectedTetrahedraMapper

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That's interesting insight. Thanks Brad.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 10:53 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>>
>> I can see what Bill means, if you look at commit 484a24c you can see
>> that vtkOpenGLProjectedTetrahedraMapper had the vtkstd stuff removed,
>> and that commit was merged. If you look at the commits that touched
>> the file,
>>
>> git log -p VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLProjectedTetrahedraMapper.cxx
>>
>> You cannot see that commit applied to the file anymore. I am guessing
>> it got clobbered when a conflict was resolved by Utkarsh.
>>
>> Marcus
>
>
> This command will show merges that touched the file since your commit:
>
>  $ git rev-list 484a24c..master --merges |
>   git --paginate diff-tree --color --stdin -r -m -p -Svtkstd \
>       -- VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLProjectedTetrahedraMapper.cxx
>
> From that output one can see that these commits:
>
>  $ git show -m -Svtkstd 174c39e8
>  $ git show -m -Svtkstd 3f0107d6
>
> favored the topic's side rather than master's side.  Since the result
> of the merge is identical to one of its parents Git does not consider
> the merge to have made any change so it does not show up in a normal
> git log for the file.
>
> -Brad