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From: Alireza <rezaxm@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Considering merge --dry-run to foresee conflicts ahead of time
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:51:45 +0330	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD9n_qiN+qXqR79z_4d+_8_mxa9eTFB42sTUT8CTF8=oQArQaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I have a half baked alias for this and it proved to be extremely
useful even in this state.

```
check = "!f() { BRANCH=${1:-HEAD}; BASE=${2:-origin/master}; git
merge-tree $(git merge-base $BRANCH $BASE) $BRANCH $BASE | sed -n
\"/+<<<<<<< .our/,/+>>>>>>> .their/p\"; }; f"
```

Of course with large conflicts it gets less useful. Getting only file
names from the patch isn't straightforward either.

So my question is what are the downsides to introducing a `merge
--dry-run` option and what would it look like?

             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-17 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17 17:21 Alireza [this message]
2021-02-17 18:39 ` Considering merge --dry-run to foresee conflicts ahead of time Konstantin Tokarev
2021-02-19 22:26 ` brian m. carlson
2021-02-19 23:59   ` Elijah Newren

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