Can I make git create two files to merge (mine & theirs) instead of one
If I run into a more complex conflict during a reinstall or other merge situation, I would create "mine" and "mine" files and make a visual diff from my IDE. Then I'll start manually fixing the differences until the files are "equal" and I would copy the changes to the conflicting file and git add
, instead of reading and deleting the sections <<<<< HEAD >>>>>>>
and <<<<< current commit >>>>>
.
Is there a way to automate the "mine" and "theirs" part? I just want two files with two distinguished names in the same directory, instead of checking them out myself based on commit versions.
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To answer the question asked you want git checkout-index --stage=
. Stage 1 is the merge base, the version where the two stories diverged. Stage 2 is yours, stage 3 belongs to them. You can git checkout-index --stage=all myfile
, and it will print the names he invented for each, for example.
$ git checkout-index --stage=all file.txt
.merge_file_a01172 .merge_file_b01172 .merge_file_c01172 file.txt
Having an original for comparison may be good.
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Running
git mergetool
does exactly what you want. All you have to do is set up the merge tool you want to use (see man git-mergetool
for details).
It has built-in support kdiff3
, vimdiff
(in three different modes) and other useful tools, and you can extend this to use your IDE as a merge tool.
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