Re: Improving merge of tricky conflicts

[Bono Stebler <bono.stebler@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your reply, and everyone else in the thread. I've played 
with diff3 and while it is slightly better in some cases, I feel there 
is a much better solution. To illustrate:

Commit 1: https://i.snipboard.io/Ssm7M9.jpg
Commit 2: https://i.snipboard.io/l2pqdT.jpg
Diff3: https://i.snipboard.io/teb1RS.jpg

What I would actually want: https://i.snipboard.io/8dOHgV.jpg

After looking at it and some research, I've managed to mostly automate 
it. You need to manually set the filename, which isn't as convenient as 
having the details directly in the file, but it beats rummaging in 
commits manually by a lot:

# Patch failed at 0001 smol commit

FILENAME="conflicting.txt"

THEIRS=$(head -1 .git/rebase-apply/0001 | awk '{ print $2 }')

OURS=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

THEIRS_DIFF=$(git -c color.ui=always show -U0 $THEIRS $FILENAME | tail 
-n +12)

OURS_DIFF=$(git -c color.ui=always show -U0 $OURS $FILENAME | tail -n +12)

printf "<<<<<<<<\n$OURS_DIFF\n========\n$THEIRS_DIFF\n>>>>>>>>\n"

Voilà, feel free to use that or suggest improvements, I am by no means a 
bash or git wizard!

Cheers,
B

On 22/07/2020 07:50, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 22.07.20 um 01:29 schrieb B. Stebler:
>> I have been looking for a tool to display merge conflicts, that instead
>> of showing the two versions of the conflicting section, would show the
>> diff for that section in both conflicting commits.
> Perhaps you want to configure `merge.conflictStyle=diff3`? It does not
> exactly show a diff, but it writes the base version of the conflicted
> part in addition to "ours" and "theirs".
>
> -- Hannes