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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Alireza <rezaxm@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for adding a "clean" merge strategy for a double-commit merge to deal with conflicts separately
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:31:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8ofgycz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD9n_qh0y84HC6sX1OxXWWv8dDMMA_tPv9zRknePVivQq_rfww@mail.gmail.com> (Alireza's message of "Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:45:24 +0430")

Alireza <rezaxm@gmail.com> writes:

> The proposal is that an option like `-X clean` would commit a clean
> merge and leave out any conflicting hunks in the tree for a follow-up
> commit to resolve conflicts.

You need to clarify what "leave out" means to you.  If you and a
side branch started from the same place and you did one thing while
the side branch did something else, you would get a conflict.

What would the "clean" (by your definition) result have in that
block of contents that actually has a conflict?  Do you mean to say
"Pick our version and ignore theirs in the blocks where the changes
conflict"?  If so perhaps -Xours merge strategy option that the
recursive backend offers is what you are looking for?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16 17:15 Request for adding a "clean" merge strategy for a double-commit merge to deal with conflicts separately Alireza
2020-07-16 17:25 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-07-16 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-07-21 16:15   ` Alireza
2020-07-21 17:08 ` Elijah Newren
2020-07-21 17:16   ` Alireza
2020-07-21 17:34     ` Elijah Newren
2020-07-21 20:43   ` Junio C Hamano

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