If we run git merge branch-name -rerere-autoupdate, git stops while merging but this time the output says: Staged 'file' using previous resolution.
#Git file merge tool update
After digging into merge documentation ( git help merge), I saw the -rerere-autoupdate option: -rerere-autoupdateĪllow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the result of auto-conflict resolution possible. Then I saw the output of merge says Resolved 'file' using previous resolution. There are no merge conflict characters (like <<<<<<<<<<<<) the conflict is If you happen to fall in to this situation, check your files with conflict if When git mergetool is invoked with this tool (either through the -t or -tool option or the merge. So every time merge the same branch, the recorded resolution is applied. It took me some time to realize that I have enabled reuse recorded resolution, After resolving the conflict with one tool, changing my default tool,Īnd reproducing the conflict scenario, git told me there are no files to merge. If you want to do something like this but not have Git even try to merge changes from the other side in, there is a more draconian option, which is the ours merge strategy. This script will call appropriate tool based on file extension. You need to have a middleman difftool and mergetool. In order to handle multiple diff/merge tools and trigger them based on the file itself, it gets bit tricky.
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Controls which merge tool is used by git. This option can also be passed to the git merge-file command we saw earlier by running something like git merge-file -ours for individual file merges. If you have custom files in your repository and they have their own diff/merge tool, you won’t like the output of textual difftools of git.
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I was trying different merge tools and using the same repository to try these For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three versions: stage 1 stores the version from the common. You resolve conflicts and applies recorded resolutions upon same When rerere (reuse recorded resolution) is enabled in git, it records how