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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Ottaviano <andrew_o1995@live.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rebase Question
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 17:23:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xraXVhvjNhJqrzDGNh=RZqC0HnKLBved+7RukC9pmMthQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MN2PR07MB59526F40B255183931649AD19C529@MN2PR07MB5952.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 5:08 PM Andrew Ottaviano <andrew_o1995@live.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I’ve used git for a few years now and I
> think it is an amazing tool! Thank you for your hard work in
> developing/maintaining it! I really appreciate it!
>
> I have a question. Let’s say that my
> colleague and I branch off of master and are working. Let’s say I’m 5 commits
> ahead of master and my colleague merges in ahead of me. The logical thing in my
> mind is to rebase off of master. The difficulty with this is that if I have
> merge conflicts that show up on my first commit, I have to resolve that stupid
> thing for every subsequent commit. I could squash, but then I loose branch
> history, so I don’t really want to do that. I could rebase in interactive mode,
> but if I recall, I still need to resolve all the conflicts on every commit
> before it squashes.
>
> The solution that I thought of is instead
> of resolving conflicts from the bottom up (starting with earliest history),
> resolving from the top down (latest to earliest) and resolving the conflict in
> the commit it occurred. If that doesn’t work (or I guess it might be the same
> as a merge of master into my branch), then couldn’t git at least store the
> conflict resolution?

You might try looking at git imerge for this
https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge

It resolves conflicts by doing incremental merges, and then you can
have an option to produce the end result of a merge or a rebase.

>
> Maybe I’m silly for asking this question,
> I just really like rebase because it is so clean and this is my one frustration
> with this method.
>

It's definitely a potential frustration that can occur during large
rebases like this.

Thanks,
Jake

>
> Thanks for humoring me
> Andrew Ottaviano

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-12  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-12  0:06 Rebase Question Andrew Ottaviano
2021-05-12  0:23 ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2021-05-12  0:29 ` Bryan Turner
2021-05-12  0:44   ` Jeff King
2021-05-12  6:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-12  7:23 ` Felipe Contreras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-11 19:57 rebase question Ryan Sun
2011-03-13  1:05 ` Martin von Zweigbergk

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