Git merge - manual merge - forcing conflicting with WHOLE old and new version of file
How to force git to merge to create a conflict in all files or all files that differ to generate a conflict having all old and whole new version, example of such file:
<<<<<<<<<<A
A
B
C
D
OLD
OLD
OLD
E
F
G
...
Z
============
A
B
C
D
NEW
NEW
NEW
EEEEEEE
FFFFF
GGG
...
Z
>>>>>>>>>>B
The idea is that I would like to merge manually, having all the contents of the two files, no metric, if the lines are identical or one branch inherits from everything previous, for example:
$ echo ABC > file
$ git add file
$ git commit -m '+) file = ABC'
[master 6e91bce] +) file += ABC
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 file
$ git checkout -b new_branch
Switched to a new branch 'new_branch'
$ echo DEF >> file
$ git add file
$ git commit -m '+) file += DEF'
[new_branch 27e29bf] +) file += DEF
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
$ git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
$ git merge --no-ff new_branch
Automatic merge went well
$ cat file
ABC
DEF
I understand the reason it git
automatically adds "DEF" to "file". But I would like to make git "think":
- file master / file and new_branch / file is different
- I will make a conflict with the whole OLD and all new version to allow my users to manually resolve it.
I've read other posts about creating a "driver merge" but it's not clear to me how to make git use it. (Script is obviously just a few lines).
PS For interested people: I am not using the merge tool. I would like to concatenate TSV tables using DataSets and ResultsSets. In all cases where they are different (even if they are edited in only one branch), I would like to handle them manually with my own toolchain to process these datasets.
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