Re: [GSoC] Org Merge Driver Update

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Andrew Young <youngar17@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I've been working on a merge driver for org-mode documents over the
> summer as a Google Summer of Code project. I just wanted to show
> everyone some progress on the merge driver.
>
> There are some new examples you can see at the project page [1][2], and
> instructions on how to build and use it.
>
> the source is available here: git clone git://orgmode.org/org-merge-driver.git
>
> I'd really appreciate if anyone could take the merge driver out for a
> test spin, and come back with any kind of feedback, such as:
>
> - file output
> - customization
> - the user interface
> - the merging rules
> - new features and element specific support
> - testing
> - neat ideas, etc.
>
> There is only about a week left in GSoC, but I'm planning to continue to
> develop the merge driver past the end of GSoC.
>
> Please take a look, and thanks,
>
> Andrew Young
>
> [1] project page:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/student-projects/git-merge-tool/
> [2] examples:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/student-projects/git-merge-tool/examples.html
>

I'm very excited to start using this merge driver.  I've put together an
Arch Linux User Repository (aur) package, which can be used by Arch
Linux users to install the org-merge-driver with pacman.  It is
available at [1], if others find it useful and if Andrew doesn't object
I'd be happy to push it into the official aur database.  It is very
simple and installs directly from git.

I spent some time testing this locally and I've run into what appears to
be an error.  Namely when merging a tree with multiple new sub-headings
the merge completes successfully, but the subheadings from the OTHER
branch are deleted by the merge.  Here [2] is a tarball of the entire
git directory after the failed merge.  Please let me know if there is
any other debug information I can provide.

Thanks,

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/org-merge-driver-20120815-1.src.tar.gz

[2]  http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/fruit-test.tar.bz2

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Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte