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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	"B. Stebler" <bono.stebler@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improving merge of tricky conflicts
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:15:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpPDu900dao08wfYtZ2pqU89D9vmwQPuFT-z5S5b-DXNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimedq5c8.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:43 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> If your merge used the merge (as opposed to diff3) style, and seeing
> that the resulting conflict is not easy to review and you wish you
> used diff3 style instead, it is way too late for any option to "git
> merge" to help you.
>
> But having an option to "git checkout" lets you move forward from
> that state, so it also makes 100% more sense than an option to "git
> merge".
>

Perhaps the issue is just that it's not discoverable easily because
it's a different command.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-24  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-21 23:29 Improving merge of tricky conflicts B. Stebler
2020-07-22  5:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2020-07-22  7:45   ` Jeff King
2020-07-22 17:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-23 18:25       ` Jeff King
2020-07-24  1:19         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24 19:48           ` Jeff King
2020-07-24 20:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-16  2:50         ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2021-01-21 14:28           ` Jeff King
2021-01-21 20:30             ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2021-01-21 21:08               ` Jeff King
2020-07-22 20:17   ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-22 21:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-22 21:20       ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-23 18:26         ` Jeff King
2020-07-23 19:11           ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-23 21:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24  5:15               ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2020-07-24  6:01                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24  6:53               ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-24 20:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24 22:11                   ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-24 23:04                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-22 22:48   ` Bono Stebler

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