From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"B. Stebler" <bono.stebler@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improving merge of tricky conflicts
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:08:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAntTS6UQIUWZngD@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiSa6jsjrm-i+T1zSBMFqpUqy-PJpai39JtH47m=v1TO_fi4A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:30:36AM -1000, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> > I think rather than thinking of these as expanded conflict markers, it
> > would probably be a more useful workflow to just look at the diff in a
> > separate command (so just show the conflicts, not everything else, and
> > just show the diff). I suspect it could be made pretty nice with some
> > simple editor support (e.g., open a new buffer in the editor showing the
> > diff for just the current hunk, or even the current _half_ of the hunk
> > you're on).
>
> At some point it seems better to delegate to a proper merge tool. You
> said that you use vim, so I'm a little surprised that you use conflict
> markers instead of using vimdiff. I don't use vim and I've never
> really used vimdiff. I still use conflict markers, mostly out of
> habit, but also because I usually run in a tmux session on a remote
> machine. I feel like I should try to switch to meld.
Yeah, I think your first sentence might be the most important takeaway. ;)
I have tried using vimdiff in the past, but didn't really like it. My
recollection is that it was clunky to navigate, and I could fix most
conflicts much faster just by looking at them. But I have never been a
heavy user of the multi-window multi-buffer stuff in vim. My "open a new
buffer in the editor" is probably a lie; for me it is more like "open a
new terminal and run a command at the shell". :)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 21:11 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 [this message]
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
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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