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Allow disabling advice shown after merge conflicts #1682

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@phil-blain phil-blain commented Mar 2, 2024

This series introduces a new config 'advice.mergeConflict' and uses it
to allow disabling the advice shown when 'git rebase', 'git cherry-pick',
'git revert', 'git rebase --apply' and 'git am' stop because of conflicts.

Thanks everyone for the reviews!

Changes since v2:

  • expanded the commit messages to explain why the tests for 'git rebase'
    do not need to be adjusted
  • adjusted the wording of the new 'advice.mergeConflict' in the doc, as
    suggested by Kristoffer for uniformity with his series which is already
    merged to 'master' (b09a883 (Merge branch 'kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice',
    2024-03-15)).
  • checked all new output manually and consequently adjusted the code in 1/2
    to avoid a lonely 'hint: ' line.
  • adjusted the addition in advice.h in 1/2 to put the new enum alphabetically,
    as noticed by Rubén.
  • added misssing newlines in 2/2 as noticed by Phillip and tweaked by Junio.
  • rebased on master (2953d95 (The eighth batch, 2024-03-15)), to avoid conflicts
    in 'Documentation/config/advice.txt' due to Kristoffer's merged series

Changes since v1:

  • renamed the new advice to 'advice.mergeConflict' to make it non-sequencer
    specific
  • added 2/2 which uses the advice in builtin/am, which covers
    'git rebase --apply' and 'git am'

Note that the code path where 'git rebase --apply' stops because of conflicts
is not covered by the tests but I tested it manually using this diff:

diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh
index 47534f1062..34eac2e6f4 100755
--- a/t/t5520-pull.sh
+++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ test_pull_autostash_fail ()
 	echo conflicting >>seq.txt &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -m "Create conflict" seq.txt &&
-	test_must_fail git pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
+	test_must_fail git -c rebase.backend=apply pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
 	test_grep "Resolve all conflicts manually" err
 '

CC: Elijah Newren newren@gmail.com
CC: Phillip Wood phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
CC: Johannes Schindelin Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
CC: ZheNing Hu adlternative@gmail.com
cc: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" code@khaugsbakk.name
cc: Rubén Justo rjusto@gmail.com
cc: Phillip Wood phillip.wood123@gmail.com

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@dscho, @webstech: not sure what happened here but the CC trailers in the PR description did not make it through as CCs, they were left as-is in the in-patch commentary here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1682.git.1709396291693.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u

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Le 2024-03-02 à 11:18, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget a écrit :
> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> 
> Allow disabling the advice shown when a squencer operation results in a
> merge conflict through a new config 'advice.sequencerConflict'.
> 
> Update the tests accordingly. Note that the body of the second test in
> t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh is enclosed in double quotes, so we must
> escape them in the added line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>

I meant to CC your addresses in https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1682.git.1709396291693.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
which I'm responding to, but the CC's did not get through somehow.

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dscho commented Mar 2, 2024

not sure what happened here

I guess it's because there was no cover letter body. GitGitGadget was simply not designed that way ;-)

It'd probably be relatively easy to adjust the code that expects an empty line before the Cc: footers. Go ahead if you want to give it a try; I'll be honest and state that I won't be able to take care of that for you.

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"Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

>  	if (msg) {
> -		advise("%s\n", msg);
> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT, "%s\n", msg);
>  		/*
>  		 * A conflict has occurred but the porcelain
>  		 * (typically rebase --interactive) wants to take care

This hunk is good.  The block removes the CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
giving this advice and then returns.

> @@ -480,22 +480,25 @@ static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>  
>  	if (show_hint) {
>  		if (opts->no_commit)
> -			advise(_("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
> -				 "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
> +					    "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_PICK)
> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> -				 "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
> -				 "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> +					    "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
> +					    "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)
> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> -				 "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
> -				 "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> +					    "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
> +					    "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>  		else
>  			BUG("unexpected pick action in print_advice()");
>  	}

This hunk can be improved.  If I were doing this patch, I probably
would have just done

-	if (show_hint) {
+	if (show_hint && advice_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT)) {

and nothing else, and doing so would keep the block easier to extend
and maintain in the future.

Because the block is all about "show_hint", we have code to print
advice messages and nothing else in it currently, and more
importantly, we will not add anything other than code to print
advice messages in it.  Because of that, skipping everything when
ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT is not enabled will not cause problems
(unlike the earlier hunk---which will break if we added "&&
advice_enabled()" to "if (msg)").  That way, when somebody teaches
this code a new kind of opts->action, they do not have to say
"advice_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT()"; they can just use
"advise()".

> diff --git a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
> index aeab689a98d..bc7c878b236 100755
> --- a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
> +++ b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh

All changes to the file look good.

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On the Git mailing list, Phillip Wood wrote (reply to this):

Hi Philippe

On 02/03/2024 16:18, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> > Allow disabling the advice shown when a squencer operation results in a
> merge conflict through a new config 'advice.sequencerConflict'.

We already have "advice.resolveConflict" to suppress conflict advice. Can we extend that to these conflict messages rather than introducing a new category? As far as the user is concerned they are all messages about resolving conflicts - I don't really see why they'd want to suppress the messages from "git merge" separately to "git rebase" (and if they do then why is it ok to suppress the messages from "git merge", "git rebase" and "git cherry-pick" with a single setting). It would also be good to update the "rebase --apply" implementation to respect this advice config to be consistent with "rebase --merge".

Best Wishes

Phillip

> Update the tests accordingly. Note that the body of the second test in
> t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh is enclosed in double quotes, so we must
> escape them in the added line.
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
> ---
>      sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
>      >      CC: Elijah Newren newren@gmail.com CC: Phillip Wood
>      phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk CC: Johannes Schindelin
>      Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de CC: ZheNing Hu adlternative@gmail.com
> > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1682%2Fphil-blain%2Fsequencer-conflict-advice-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1682/phil-blain/sequencer-conflict-advice-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1682
> >   Documentation/config/advice.txt |  3 +++
>   advice.c                        |  1 +
>   advice.h                        |  1 +
>   sequencer.c                     | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh   |  1 +
>   t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh |  2 ++
>   6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> index c7ea70f2e2e..736b88407a4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> @@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ advice.*::
>   	rmHints::
>   		In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1],
>   		show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
> +	sequencerConflict::
> +		Advice shown when a sequencer operation stops because
> +		of conflicts.
>   	sequencerInUse::
>   		Advice shown when a sequencer command is already in progress.
>   	skippedCherryPicks::
> diff --git a/advice.c b/advice.c
> index 6e9098ff089..23e48194e74 100644
> --- a/advice.c
> +++ b/advice.c
> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ static struct {
>   	[ADVICE_RESET_NO_REFRESH_WARNING]		= { "resetNoRefresh" },
>   	[ADVICE_RESOLVE_CONFLICT]			= { "resolveConflict" },
>   	[ADVICE_RM_HINTS]				= { "rmHints" },
> +	[ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT]                     = { "sequencerConflict" },
>   	[ADVICE_SEQUENCER_IN_USE]			= { "sequencerInUse" },
>   	[ADVICE_SET_UPSTREAM_FAILURE]			= { "setUpstreamFailure" },
>   	[ADVICE_SKIPPED_CHERRY_PICKS]			= { "skippedCherryPicks" },
> diff --git a/advice.h b/advice.h
> index 9d4f49ae38b..98966f8991d 100644
> --- a/advice.h
> +++ b/advice.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ enum advice_type {
>   	ADVICE_RESOLVE_CONFLICT,
>   	ADVICE_RM_HINTS,
>   	ADVICE_SEQUENCER_IN_USE,
> +	ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>   	ADVICE_SET_UPSTREAM_FAILURE,
>   	ADVICE_SKIPPED_CHERRY_PICKS,
>   	ADVICE_STATUS_AHEAD_BEHIND_WARNING,
> diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
> index f49a871ac06..3e2f028ce2d 100644
> --- a/sequencer.c
> +++ b/sequencer.c
> @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>   	char *msg = getenv("GIT_CHERRY_PICK_HELP");
>   >   	if (msg) {
> -		advise("%s\n", msg);
> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT, "%s\n", msg);
>   		/*
>   		 * A conflict has occurred but the porcelain
>   		 * (typically rebase --interactive) wants to take care
> @@ -480,22 +480,25 @@ static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>   >   	if (show_hint) {
>   		if (opts->no_commit)
> -			advise(_("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
> -				 "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
> +					    "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>   		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_PICK)
> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> -				 "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
> -				 "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> +					    "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
> +					    "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>   		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)
> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> -				 "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
> -				 "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
> +					    "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
> +					    "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>   		else
>   			BUG("unexpected pick action in print_advice()");
>   	}
> diff --git a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
> index aeab689a98d..bc7c878b236 100755
> --- a/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
> +++ b/t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh
> @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ test_expect_success 'advice from failed revert' '
>   	hint: You can instead skip this commit with "git revert --skip".
>   	hint: To abort and get back to the state before "git revert",
>   	hint: run "git revert --abort".
> +	hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.sequencerConflict false"
>   	EOF
>   	test_commit --append --no-tag "double-add dream" dream dream &&
>   	test_must_fail git revert HEAD^ 2>actual &&
> diff --git a/t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh b/t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh
> index c88d597b126..a643893dcbd 100755
> --- a/t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh
> +++ b/t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh
> @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ test_expect_success 'advice from failed cherry-pick' '
>   	hint: You can instead skip this commit with "git cherry-pick --skip".
>   	hint: To abort and get back to the state before "git cherry-pick",
>   	hint: run "git cherry-pick --abort".
> +	hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.sequencerConflict false"
>   	EOF
>   	test_must_fail git cherry-pick picked 2>actual &&
>   > @@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ test_expect_success 'advice from failed cherry-pick --no-commit' "
>   	error: could not apply \$picked... picked
>   	hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
>   	hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
> +	hint: Disable this message with \"git config advice.sequencerConflict false\"
>   	EOF
>   	test_must_fail git cherry-pick --no-commit picked 2>actual &&
>   > > base-commit: 0f9d4d28b7e6021b7e6db192b7bf47bd3a0d0d1d

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> We already have "advice.resolveConflict" to suppress conflict advice. Oh looking more closely that is doing something slightly different - it suppresses advice about pre-existing conflicts in the index when starting a merge etc. So we probably do need a new config variable but I think it should have a generic name - not be sequencer specific so we can extend its scope in the future to "git merge", "git am -3", "git stash" etc.

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On the Git mailing list, Junio C Hamano wrote (reply to this):

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> ... So we probably do need a new config variable but
> I think it should have a generic name - not be sequencer specific so
> we can extend its scope in the future to "git merge", "git am -3",
> "git stash" etc.

A very good point.  Thanks for your careful thinking.

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On the Git mailing list, Philippe Blain wrote (reply to this):

Hi Junio,

Le 2024-03-03 à 17:57, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>  	if (msg) {
>> -		advise("%s\n", msg);
>> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT, "%s\n", msg);
>>  		/*
>>  		 * A conflict has occurred but the porcelain
>>  		 * (typically rebase --interactive) wants to take care
> 
> This hunk is good.  The block removes the CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
> giving this advice and then returns.
> 
>> @@ -480,22 +480,25 @@ static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>>  
>>  	if (show_hint) {
>>  		if (opts->no_commit)
>> -			advise(_("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
>> -				 "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>> +					  _("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
>> +					    "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_PICK)
>> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>> -				 "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
>> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
>> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
>> -				 "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>> +					    "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
>> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
>> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
>> +					    "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)
>> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>> -				 "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
>> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
>> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
>> -				 "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>> +					    "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
>> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
>> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
>> +					    "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>>  		else
>>  			BUG("unexpected pick action in print_advice()");
>>  	}
> 
> This hunk can be improved.  If I were doing this patch, I probably
> would have just done
> 
> -	if (show_hint) {
> +	if (show_hint && advice_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT)) {
> 
> and nothing else, and doing so would keep the block easier to extend
> and maintain in the future.
> 
> Because the block is all about "show_hint", we have code to print
> advice messages and nothing else in it currently, and more
> importantly, we will not add anything other than code to print
> advice messages in it.  Because of that, skipping everything when
> ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT is not enabled will not cause problems
> (unlike the earlier hunk---which will break if we added "&&
> advice_enabled()" to "if (msg)").  That way, when somebody teaches
> this code a new kind of opts->action, they do not have to say
> "advice_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT()"; they can just use
> "advise()".

That's true and makes the changes simpler, thank you for the suggestion.
I'll do that in v2.

Philippe.

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On the Git mailing list, Philippe Blain wrote (reply to this):

Hi Phillip and Junio,

Le 2024-03-04 à 12:56, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> ... So we probably do need a new config variable but
>> I think it should have a generic name - not be sequencer specific so
>> we can extend its scope in the future to "git merge", "git am -3",
>> "git stash" etc.
> 
> A very good point.  Thanks for your careful thinking.

OK, I agree we can make the new advice more generic, but I'm lacking
inspiration for the name. Maybe 'advice.mergeConflicted' ? 
Or 'advice.resolveConflictedMerge' ? though this is close to the existing 
'resolveConflict'... 
Maybe just 'advice.mergeConflict' ?

Thanks, 
Philippe.

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On the Git mailing list, Philippe Blain wrote (reply to this):

Hi Phillip,

Le 2024-03-04 à 05:12, Phillip Wood a écrit :
> Hi Philippe
> 
> On 02/03/2024 16:18, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> 
> It would also be good to update the "rebase --apply" implementation to respect this advice config to be consistent with "rebase --merge".
Yes, this is a good idea. This would take care of 'git am' at the same time
since both are implemented in builtin/am.c::die_user_resolve.

Thanks,
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> Hi Junio,
> 
> Le 2024-03-03 à 17:57, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>> "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>  	if (msg) {
>>> -		advise("%s\n", msg);
>>> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT, "%s\n", msg);
>>>  		/*
>>>  		 * A conflict has occurred but the porcelain
>>>  		 * (typically rebase --interactive) wants to take care
>>
>> This hunk is good.  The block removes the CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
>> giving this advice and then returns.
>>
>>> @@ -480,22 +480,25 @@ static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>>>  
>>>  	if (show_hint) {
>>>  		if (opts->no_commit)
>>> -			advise(_("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
>>> -				 "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>>> +					  _("after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths\n"
>>> +					    "with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'"));
>>>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_PICK)
>>> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>>> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>>> -				 "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
>>> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
>>> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
>>> -				 "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>>> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>>> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>>> +					    "\"git cherry-pick --continue\".\n"
>>> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git cherry-pick --skip\".\n"
>>> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git cherry-pick\",\n"
>>> +					    "run \"git cherry-pick --abort\"."));
>>>  		else if (opts->action == REPLAY_REVERT)
>>> -			advise(_("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>>> -				 "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>>> -				 "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
>>> -				 "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
>>> -				 "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
>>> -				 "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>>> +			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>>> +					  _("After resolving the conflicts, mark them with\n"
>>> +					    "\"git add/rm <pathspec>\", then run\n"
>>> +					    "\"git revert --continue\".\n"
>>> +					    "You can instead skip this commit with \"git revert --skip\".\n"
>>> +					    "To abort and get back to the state before \"git revert\",\n"
>>> +					    "run \"git revert --abort\"."));
>>>  		else
>>>  			BUG("unexpected pick action in print_advice()");
>>>  	}
>>
>> This hunk can be improved.  If I were doing this patch, I probably
>> would have just done
>>
>> -	if (show_hint) {
>> +	if (show_hint && advice_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT)) {
>>
>> and nothing else, and doing so would keep the block easier to extend
>> and maintain in the future.
>>
>> Because the block is all about "show_hint", we have code to print
>> advice messages and nothing else in it currently, and more
>> importantly, we will not add anything other than code to print
>> advice messages in it.  Because of that, skipping everything when
>> ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT is not enabled will not cause problems
>> (unlike the earlier hunk---which will break if we added "&&
>> advice_enabled()" to "if (msg)").  That way, when somebody teaches
>> this code a new kind of opts->action, they do not have to say
>> "advice_if_enabled(ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT()"; they can just use
>> "advise()".
> 
> That's true and makes the changes simpler, thank you for the suggestion.
> I'll do that in v2.

Thinking about this more and looking at the code, using 'advice_enabled' in the condition
instead of using 'advise_if_enabled' for each message has a side effect:
the text "hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.sequencerConflict false"
will not appear, which I find less user friendly...

Philippe.

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On the Git mailing list, Phillip Wood wrote (reply to this):

Hi Philippe

On 09/03/2024 17:53, Philippe Blain wrote:
> Le 2024-03-04 à 12:56, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
>> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> ... So we probably do need a new config variable but
>>> I think it should have a generic name - not be sequencer specific so
>>> we can extend its scope in the future to "git merge", "git am -3",
>>> "git stash" etc.
>>
>> A very good point.  Thanks for your careful thinking.
> > OK, I agree we can make the new advice more generic, but I'm lacking
> inspiration for the name. Maybe 'advice.mergeConflicted' ?
> Or 'advice.resolveConflictedMerge' ? though this is close to the existing
> 'resolveConflict'...
> Maybe just 'advice.mergeConflict' ?

'advice.mergeConflict' sounds good to me

Best Wishes

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On the Git mailing list, Junio C Hamano wrote (reply to this):

Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:

> Thinking about this more and looking at the code, using 'advice_enabled' in the condition
> instead of using 'advise_if_enabled' for each message has a side effect:
> the text "hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.sequencerConflict false"
> will not appear, which I find less user friendly...

Good eyes.

I agree that you have to do that part yourself at the end of that
"if () { ... }" block using turn_off_instructions[] string.

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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

>> Maybe just 'advice.mergeConflict' ?
>
> 'advice.mergeConflict' sounds good to me

Yup, looks good to me, too.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thinking about this more and looking at the code, using 'advice_enabled' in the condition
>> instead of using 'advise_if_enabled' for each message has a side effect:
>> the text "hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.sequencerConflict false"
>> will not appear, which I find less user friendly...
>
> Good eyes.
>
> I agree that you have to do that part yourself at the end of that
> "if () { ... }" block using turn_off_instructions[] string.

Forgot to add "... which is an unnecessary chore" at the end.

Thanks.

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@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ advice.*::
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
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Hi Philippe

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024, at 20:51, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> index c7ea70f2e2e..a1178284b23 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ advice.*::
>  		Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
>  		your information is guessed from the system username and
>  		domain name.
> +	mergeConflict::
> +		Advice shown when various commands stop because of conflicts.

Given that topic kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice is in `next`, maybe this
should be changed to “Shown when”?[1]

🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/7017ff3fff773412e8c472d8e59a132b0e8faae7.1709670287.git.code@khaugsbakk.name/

>  	nestedTag::
>  		Advice shown if a user attempts to recursively tag a tag object.
>  	pushAlreadyExists::

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Hi Kristoffer,

Le 2024-03-11 à 06:29, Kristoffer Haugsbakk a écrit :
> Hi Philippe
> 
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2024, at 20:51, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
>> b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
>> index c7ea70f2e2e..a1178284b23 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
>> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ advice.*::
>>  		Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
>>  		your information is guessed from the system username and
>>  		domain name.
>> +	mergeConflict::
>> +		Advice shown when various commands stop because of conflicts.
> 
> Given that topic kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice is in `next`, maybe this
> should be changed to “Shown when”?[1]
> 
> 🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/7017ff3fff773412e8c472d8e59a132b0e8faae7.1709670287.git.code@khaugsbakk.name/

Thanks for the pointer, I will change that for uniformity
in that section of the doc.

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@@ -1150,19 +1150,23 @@ static const char *msgnum(const struct am_state *state)
static void NORETURN die_user_resolve(const struct am_state *state)
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Hi Philippe

On 10/03/2024 19:51, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c
> index d1990d7edcb..0e97b827e4b 100644
> --- a/builtin/am.c
> +++ b/builtin/am.c
> @@ -1150,19 +1150,23 @@ static const char *msgnum(const struct am_state *state)
>   static void NORETURN die_user_resolve(const struct am_state *state)
>   {
>   	if (state->resolvemsg) {
> -		printf_ln("%s", state->resolvemsg);
> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", state->resolvemsg);
>   	} else {
>   		const char *cmdline = state->interactive ? "git am -i" : "git am";
> +		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>   > -		printf_ln(_("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
> -		printf_ln(_("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);

I think you need to append "\n" to the message strings here (and below) to match the behavior of printf_ln().

Apart from that both patches look good to me, thanks for re-rolling. It is a bit surprising that we don't need to update any rebase tests. I haven't checked but I guess either we're not testing this advice when rebasing or we're using a grep expression that is vague enough not to be affected.

Best Wishes

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>   		if (advice_enabled(ADVICE_AM_WORK_DIR) &&
>   		    is_empty_or_missing_file(am_path(state, "patch")) &&
>   		    !repo_index_has_changes(the_repository, NULL, NULL))
> -			printf_ln(_("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\"."), cmdline);
> +			strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\"."), cmdline);
>   > -		printf_ln(_("To restore the original branch and stop patching, run \"%s --abort\"."), cmdline);
> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To restore the original branch and stop patching, run \"%s --abort\"."), cmdline);
> +
> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", sb.buf);
> +		strbuf_release(&sb);
>   	}message instructing the user how to continue the operation. This message
>   >   	exit(128);
> diff --git a/t/t4150-am.sh b/t/t4150-am.sh
> index 3b125762694..5e2b6c80eae 100755
> --- a/t/t4150-am.sh
> +++ b/t/t4150-am.sh
> @@ -1224,8 +1224,8 @@ test_expect_success 'record as an empty commit when meeting e-mail message that
>   >   test_expect_success 'skip an empty patch in the middle of an am session' '
>   	git checkout empty-commit^ &&
> -	test_must_fail git am empty-commit.patch >err &&
> -	grep "Patch is empty." err &&
> +	test_must_fail git am empty-commit.patch >out 2>err &&
> +	grep "Patch is empty." out &&
>   	grep "To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"git am --allow-empty\"." err &&
>   	git am --skip &&
>   	test_path_is_missing .git/rebase-apply &&
> @@ -1236,8 +1236,8 @@ test_expect_success 'skip an empty patch in the middle of an am session' '
>   >   test_expect_success 'record an empty patch as an empty commit in the middle of an am session' '
>   	git checkout empty-commit^ &&
> -	test_must_fail git am empty-commit.patch >err &&
> -	grep "Patch is empty." err &&
> +	test_must_fail git am empty-commit.patch >out 2>err &&
> +	grep "Patch is empty." out &&
>   	grep "To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"git am --allow-empty\"." err &&
>   	git am --allow-empty >output &&
>   	grep "No changes - recorded it as an empty commit." output &&
> diff --git a/t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh b/t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh
> index 45f1d4f95e5..661feb60709 100755
> --- a/t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh
> +++ b/t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ test_expect_success setup '
>   # Also, it had the unwanted side-effect of deleting f.
>   test_expect_success 'try to apply corrupted patch' '
>   	test_when_finished "git am --abort" &&
> -	test_must_fail git -c advice.amWorkDir=false am bad-patch.diff 2>actual &&
> +	test_must_fail git -c advice.amWorkDir=false -c advice.mergeConflict=false am bad-patch.diff 2>actual &&
>   	echo "error: git diff header lacks filename information (line 4)" >expected &&
>   	test_path_is_file f &&
>   	test_cmp expected actual

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phillip.wood123@gmail.com writes:

> Hi Philippe
>
> On 10/03/2024 19:51, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c
>> index d1990d7edcb..0e97b827e4b 100644
>> --- a/builtin/am.c
>> +++ b/builtin/am.c
>> @@ -1150,19 +1150,23 @@ static const char *msgnum(const struct am_state *state)
>>   static void NORETURN die_user_resolve(const struct am_state *state)
>>   {
>>   	if (state->resolvemsg) {
>> -		printf_ln("%s", state->resolvemsg);
>> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", state->resolvemsg);
>>   	} else {
>>   		const char *cmdline = state->interactive ? "git am -i" : "git am";
>> +		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>>   -		printf_ln(_("When you have resolved this problem, run
>> \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>> -		printf_ln(_("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>
> I think you need to append "\n" to the message strings here (and
> below) to match the behavior of printf_ln().

Good eyes.  You'll get the final "\n" but the line breaks inside the
paragraph you give to advise*() functions are your responsibility.
Even though advice.c:vadvise() handles multi-line message better
(unlike usage.c:vreportf() that is used for error() and die()) by
giving a line header for each line of the message, we do not wrap
lines at runtime.

> Apart from that both patches look good to me, thanks for
> re-rolling. It is a bit surprising that we don't need to update any

Thanks, both, and indeed it is a bit surprising.

> rebase tests. I haven't checked but I guess either we're not testing
> this advice when rebasing or we're using a grep expression that is
> vague enough not to be affected.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> I think you need to append "\n" to the message strings here (and
>> below) to match the behavior of printf_ln().
>
> Good eyes.  You'll get the final "\n" but the line breaks inside the
> paragraph you give to advise*() functions are your responsibility.
> Even though advice.c:vadvise() handles multi-line message better
> (unlike usage.c:vreportf() that is used for error() and die()) by
> giving a line header for each line of the message, we do not wrap
> lines at runtime.

Perhaps something like this.

The overly long lines are getting a bit annoying but I do not
offhand think of a good way to shorten them.

Also, having to assemble the message in a buffer and emit them all
once with ("%s" % sb.buf) is a highly annoying pattern.  Perhaps
given enough examples, somebody will come up with a simpler API to
do the same thing, but that is not in the scope of this series.

 builtin/am.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git i/builtin/am.c w/builtin/am.c
index 0e97b827e4..227036d732 100644
--- i/builtin/am.c
+++ w/builtin/am.c
@@ -1155,14 +1155,13 @@ static void NORETURN die_user_resolve(const struct am_state *state)
 		const char *cmdline = state->interactive ? "git am -i" : "git am";
 		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
 
-		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
-		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
+		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\".\n"), cmdline);
+		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead.\n"), cmdline);
 
 		if (advice_enabled(ADVICE_AM_WORK_DIR) &&
 		    is_empty_or_missing_file(am_path(state, "patch")) &&
 		    !repo_index_has_changes(the_repository, NULL, NULL))
-			strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\"."), cmdline);
-
+			strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\".\n"), cmdline);
 		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To restore the original branch and stop patching, run \"%s --abort\"."), cmdline);
 
 		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", sb.buf);

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Hi Phillip and Junio,

Le 2024-03-11 à 13:49, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>>> I think you need to append "\n" to the message strings here (and
>>> below) to match the behavior of printf_ln().
>>
>> Good eyes.  You'll get the final "\n" but the line breaks inside the
>> paragraph you give to advise*() functions are your responsibility.
>> Even though advice.c:vadvise() handles multi-line message better
>> (unlike usage.c:vreportf() that is used for error() and die()) by
>> giving a line header for each line of the message, we do not wrap
>> lines at runtime.
> 
> Perhaps something like this.

Thanks Phillip for noticing, and Junio for the fix. I should have looked
at the output, apologies. I made sure that the test passed but since 
t/t4150-am.sh only checks for the "To record the empty patch as an empty commit"
string, it still passed despite the missing newlines.

Just a note if it helps anyone: I cherry-picked Junio's fixes using:

   b4 shazam -P _ '<xmqq1q8gsloz.fsf@gitster.g>'


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Le 2024-03-11 à 13:12, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> phillip.wood123@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> Hi Philippe
>>
>> On 10/03/2024 19:51, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>> diff --git a/builtin/am.c b/builtin/am.c
>>> index d1990d7edcb..0e97b827e4b 100644
>>> --- a/builtin/am.c
>>> +++ b/builtin/am.c
>>> @@ -1150,19 +1150,23 @@ static const char *msgnum(const struct am_state *state)
>>>   static void NORETURN die_user_resolve(const struct am_state *state)
>>>   {
>>>   	if (state->resolvemsg) {
>>> -		printf_ln("%s", state->resolvemsg);
>>> +		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", state->resolvemsg);
>>>   	} else {
>>>   		const char *cmdline = state->interactive ? "git am -i" : "git am";
>>> +		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>>>   -		printf_ln(_("When you have resolved this problem, run
>>> \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>>> -		printf_ln(_("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>>> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>>> +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>>
>> I think you need to append "\n" to the message strings here (and
>> below) to match the behavior of printf_ln().
> 
> Good eyes.  You'll get the final "\n" but the line breaks inside the
> paragraph you give to advise*() functions are your responsibility.
> Even though advice.c:vadvise() handles multi-line message better
> (unlike usage.c:vreportf() that is used for error() and die()) by
> giving a line header for each line of the message, we do not wrap
> lines at runtime.
> 
>> Apart from that both patches look good to me, thanks for
>> re-rolling. It is a bit surprising that we don't need to update any
> 
> Thanks, both, and indeed it is a bit surprising.
> 
>> rebase tests. I haven't checked but I guess either we're not testing
>> this advice when rebasing or we're using a grep expression that is
>> vague enough not to be affected.

We are not testing this advice when rebasing _with the apply backend_. 
We are testing it with the merge backend (in t5520-pull.sh) but we are 
only grepping stderr for  "Resolve all conflicts manually" so I did not 
have to change anything. I'll add that to the commit message for completeness.

We were testing the apply backend through the same test before 2ac0d6273f 
(rebase: change the default backend from "am" to "merge", 2020-02-15).

Thanks,
Philippe.

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 07:50:59PM +0000, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:

> Range-diff vs v1:
> 
>  1:  e929d3381cf ! 1:  a2ce6fd24c2 sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice

[...]

>        ## advice.c ##
>       @@ advice.c: static struct {
>      - 	[ADVICE_RESET_NO_REFRESH_WARNING]		= { "resetNoRefresh" },
>      - 	[ADVICE_RESOLVE_CONFLICT]			= { "resolveConflict" },
>      - 	[ADVICE_RM_HINTS]				= { "rmHints" },
>      -+	[ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT]                     = { "sequencerConflict" },
>      - 	[ADVICE_SEQUENCER_IN_USE]			= { "sequencerInUse" },
>      - 	[ADVICE_SET_UPSTREAM_FAILURE]			= { "setUpstreamFailure" },
>      - 	[ADVICE_SKIPPED_CHERRY_PICKS]			= { "skippedCherryPicks" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_GRAFT_FILE_DEPRECATED]			= { "graftFileDeprecated" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_IGNORED_HOOK]				= { "ignoredHook" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_IMPLICIT_IDENTITY]			= { "implicitIdentity" },
>      ++	[ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT]				= { "mergeConflict" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_NESTED_TAG]				= { "nestedTag" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_OBJECT_NAME_WARNING]			= { "objectNameWarning" },
>      + 	[ADVICE_PUSH_ALREADY_EXISTS]			= { "pushAlreadyExists" },

You rename ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT to ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT and place
the new name in the correct position, alphabetically.  Nice.

>        ## advice.h ##
>       @@ advice.h: enum advice_type {
>      - 	ADVICE_RESOLVE_CONFLICT,
>      - 	ADVICE_RM_HINTS,
>      - 	ADVICE_SEQUENCER_IN_USE,
>      -+	ADVICE_SEQUENCER_CONFLICT,
>      - 	ADVICE_SET_UPSTREAM_FAILURE,
>      - 	ADVICE_SKIPPED_CHERRY_PICKS,
>      - 	ADVICE_STATUS_AHEAD_BEHIND_WARNING,
>      + 	ADVICE_IGNORED_HOOK,
>      + 	ADVICE_IMPLICIT_IDENTITY,
>      + 	ADVICE_NESTED_TAG,
>      ++	ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT,
>      + 	ADVICE_OBJECT_NAME_WARNING,
>      + 	ADVICE_PUSH_ALREADY_EXISTS,
>      + 	ADVICE_PUSH_FETCH_FIRST,

Here, I assume you're trying to place the new name correctly too.
However, I see that it's in the wrong place.  It initially caught my
attention, but then I realize that the list is not sorted.  So it's
understandable.

Maybe you want to sort the list as a preparatory patch in this series
and so we'll avoid this kind of mistakes.

Of course, this does not deserve a reroll.  We can do it in a future
series when the dust settles.

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"Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> This series introduces a new config 'advice.mergeConflict' and uses it to
> allow disabling the advice shown when 'git rebase', 'git cherry-pick', 'git
> revert', 'git rebase --apply' and 'git am' stop because of conflicts.
>
> Thanks everyone for the reviews!
>
> Changes since v2:
>
>  * expanded the commit messages to explain why the tests for 'git rebase' do
>    not need to be adjusted
>  * adjusted the wording of the new 'advice.mergeConflict' in the doc, as
>    suggested by Kristoffer for uniformity with his series which is already
>    merged to 'master' (b09a8839a4 (Merge branch
>    'kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice', 2024-03-15)).
>  * checked all new output manually and consequently adjusted the code in 1/2
>    to avoid a lonely 'hint: ' line.
>  * adjusted the addition in advice.h in 1/2 to put the new enum
>    alphabetically, as noticed by Rubén.
>  * added misssing newlines in 2/2 as noticed by Phillip and tweaked by
>    Junio.
>  * rebased on master (2953d95d40 (The eighth batch, 2024-03-15)), to avoid
>    conflicts in 'Documentation/config/advice.txt' due to Kristoffer's merged
>    series

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On the Git mailing list, Phillip Wood wrote (reply to this):

Hi Philippe

On 16/03/2024 21:16, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
> Changes since v2:
> >   * expanded the commit messages to explain why the tests for 'git rebase' do
>     not need to be adjusted
>   * adjusted the wording of the new 'advice.mergeConflict' in the doc, as
>     suggested by Kristoffer for uniformity with his series which is already
>     merged to 'master' (b09a8839a4 (Merge branch
>     'kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice', 2024-03-15)).
>   * checked all new output manually and consequently adjusted the code in 1/2
>     to avoid a lonely 'hint: ' line.
>   * adjusted the addition in advice.h in 1/2 to put the new enum
>     alphabetically, as noticed by Rubén.
>   * added misssing newlines in 2/2 as noticed by Phillip and tweaked by
>     Junio.
>   * rebased on master (2953d95d40 (The eighth batch, 2024-03-15)), to avoid
>     conflicts in 'Documentation/config/advice.txt' due to Kristoffer's merged >     series
> [...] > Note that the code path where 'git rebase --apply' stops because of
> conflicts is not covered by the tests but I tested it manually using this
> diff:
> > diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh
> index 47534f1062..34eac2e6f4 100755
> --- a/t/t5520-pull.sh
> +++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh
> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ test_pull_autostash_fail ()
>       echo conflicting >>seq.txt &&
>       test_tick &&
>       git commit -m "Create conflict" seq.txt &&
> -	test_must_fail git pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
> +	test_must_fail git -c rebase.backend=apply pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
>       test_grep "Resolve all conflicts manually" err
>   '

Thanks for being so thorough, this version looks good to me

Best Wishes

Phillip

> > Philippe Blain (2):
>    sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
>    builtin/am: allow disabling conflict advice
> >   Documentation/config/advice.txt |  2 ++
>   advice.c                        |  1 +
>   advice.h                        |  1 +
>   builtin/am.c                    | 14 +++++++++-----
>   sequencer.c                     | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   t/t3501-revert-cherry-pick.sh   |  1 +
>   t/t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh |  2 ++
>   t/t4150-am.sh                   |  8 ++++----
>   t/t4254-am-corrupt.sh           |  2 +-
>   9 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> > > base-commit: 2953d95d402b6bff1a59c4712f4d46f1b9ea137f
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1682%2Fphil-blain%2Fsequencer-conflict-advice-v3
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1682/phil-blain/sequencer-conflict-advice-v3
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1682
> > Range-diff vs v2:
> >   1:  a2ce6fd24c2 ! 1:  6005c1e9890 sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
>       @@ Commit message
>            merge conflict through a new config 'advice.mergeConflict', which is
>            named generically such that it can be used by other commands eventually.
>        >       +    Remove that final '\n' in the first hunk in sequencer.c to avoid an
>       +    otherwise empty 'hint: ' line before the line 'hint: Disable this
>       +    message with "git config advice.mergeConflict false"' which is
>       +    automatically added by 'advise_if_enabled'.
>       +
>            Note that we use 'advise_if_enabled' for each message in the second hunk
>            in sequencer.c, instead of using 'if (show_hints &&
>            advice_enabled(...)', because the former instructs the user how to
>       @@ Commit message
>        >            Update the tests accordingly. Note that the body of the second test in
>            t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh is enclosed in double quotes, so we must
>       -    escape them in the added line.
>       +    escape them in the added line. Note that t5520-pull.sh, which checks
>       +    that we display the advice for 'git rebase' (via 'git pull --rebase')
>       +    does not have to be updated because it only greps for a specific line in
>       +    the advice message.
>        >            Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>        >         ## Documentation/config/advice.txt ##
>        @@ Documentation/config/advice.txt: advice.*::
>       - 		Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
>       - 		your information is guessed from the system username and
>       - 		domain name.
>       + 		Shown when the user's information is guessed from the
>       + 		system username and domain name, to tell the user how to
>       + 		set their identity configuration.
>        +	mergeConflict::
>       -+		Advice shown when various commands stop because of conflicts.
>       ++		Shown when various commands stop because of conflicts.
>         	nestedTag::
>       - 		Advice shown if a user attempts to recursively tag a tag object.
>       + 		Shown when a user attempts to recursively tag a tag object.
>         	pushAlreadyExists::
>        >         ## advice.c ##
>       @@ advice.c: static struct {
>        >         ## advice.h ##
>        @@ advice.h: enum advice_type {
>       + 	ADVICE_GRAFT_FILE_DEPRECATED,
>         	ADVICE_IGNORED_HOOK,
>         	ADVICE_IMPLICIT_IDENTITY,
>       - 	ADVICE_NESTED_TAG,
>        +	ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT,
>       + 	ADVICE_NESTED_TAG,
>         	ADVICE_OBJECT_NAME_WARNING,
>         	ADVICE_PUSH_ALREADY_EXISTS,
>       - 	ADVICE_PUSH_FETCH_FIRST,
>        >         ## sequencer.c ##
>        @@ sequencer.c: static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>       @@ sequencer.c: static void print_advice(struct repository *r, int show_hint,
>         >         	if (msg) {
>        -		advise("%s\n", msg);
>       -+		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s\n", msg);
>       ++		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_MERGE_CONFLICT, "%s", msg);
>         		/*
>         		 * A conflict has occurred but the porcelain
>         		 * (typically rebase --interactive) wants to take care
>   2:  3235542cc6f ! 2:  73d07c8b6a7 builtin/am: allow disabling conflict advice
>       @@ Commit message
>            on stderr instead of stdout. In t4150, redirect stdout to 'out' and
>            stderr to 'err', since this is less confusing. In t4254, as we are
>            testing a specific failure mode of 'git am', simply disable the advice.
>       +    Note that we are not testing that this advice is shown in 'git rebase'
>       +    for the apply backend since 2ac0d6273f (rebase: change the default
>       +    backend from "am" to "merge", 2020-02-15).
>        >       +    Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>       +    Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>            Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>        >         ## builtin/am.c ##
>       @@ builtin/am.c: static const char *msgnum(const struct am_state *state)
>         >        -		printf_ln(_("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>        -		printf_ln(_("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>       -+		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\"."), cmdline);
>       -+		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead."), cmdline);
>       ++		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("When you have resolved this problem, run \"%s --continue\".\n"), cmdline);
>       ++		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("If you prefer to skip this patch, run \"%s --skip\" instead.\n"), cmdline);
>         >         		if (advice_enabled(ADVICE_AM_WORK_DIR) &&
>         		    is_empty_or_missing_file(am_path(state, "patch")) &&
>         		    !repo_index_has_changes(the_repository, NULL, NULL))
>        -			printf_ln(_("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\"."), cmdline);
>       -+			strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\"."), cmdline);
>       ++			strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To record the empty patch as an empty commit, run \"%s --allow-empty\".\n"), cmdline);
>         >        -		printf_ln(_("To restore the original branch and stop patching, run \"%s --abort\"."), cmdline);
>        +		strbuf_addf(&sb, _("To restore the original branch and stop patching, run \"%s --abort\"."), cmdline);
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On the Git mailing list, Junio C Hamano wrote (reply to this):

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Philippe
>
> On 16/03/2024 21:16, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> Changes since v2:
>>   * expanded the commit messages to explain why the tests for 'git
>> rebase' do
>>     not need to be adjusted
>>   * adjusted the wording of the new 'advice.mergeConflict' in the doc, as
>>     suggested by Kristoffer for uniformity with his series which is already
>>     merged to 'master' (b09a8839a4 (Merge branch
>>     'kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice', 2024-03-15)).
>>   * checked all new output manually and consequently adjusted the code in 1/2
>>     to avoid a lonely 'hint: ' line.
>>   * adjusted the addition in advice.h in 1/2 to put the new enum
>>     alphabetically, as noticed by Rubén.
>>   * added misssing newlines in 2/2 as noticed by Phillip and tweaked by
>>     Junio.
>>   * rebased on master (2953d95d40 (The eighth batch, 2024-03-15)), to avoid
>>     conflicts in 'Documentation/config/advice.txt' due to Kristoffer's merged >     series
>> [...] Note that the code path where 'git rebase --apply' stops
>> because of
>> conflicts is not covered by the tests but I tested it manually using this
>> diff:
>> diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh
>> index 47534f1062..34eac2e6f4 100755
>> --- a/t/t5520-pull.sh
>> +++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh
>> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ test_pull_autostash_fail ()
>>       echo conflicting >>seq.txt &&
>>       test_tick &&
>>       git commit -m "Create conflict" seq.txt &&
>> -	test_must_fail git pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
>> +	test_must_fail git -c rebase.backend=apply pull --rebase . seq 2>err >out &&
>>       test_grep "Resolve all conflicts manually" err
>>   '
>
> Thanks for being so thorough, this version looks good to me

Yup, these look good.  Let's mark the topic for 'next'.

Thanks, both.

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Acked-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
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