bug#69220: [PATCH] smerge-mode: add a function to resolve all conflicts in a file

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Mon, 2024-02-19 at 13:25 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Feb 19 2024, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
> 
> > 1: Actually, git provides a functional that should work for that
> > usecase; but in my experience it is more confusing than it's
> > useful. It
> > is options `--theirs/ours`, i.e. `git checkout --theirs ./` and
> > `git
> > checkout --ours ./`. But these options are problematic because
> > instead
> > of resolving conflict in preference of `theirs` or `ours` they do a
> > complete checkout of the code from either of the branches. I can't
> > count how many times I was burned by trying to resolve conflicts
> > with
> > these options and then was getting wrong code because together with
> > the
> > conflicting part the options change everything else.
> 
> I think what you actually want is the 'ours'/'theirs' options of the
> merge strategy (available to both the ort and recursive strategies).

Oh, thanks for mentioning, I didn't know! So… how do I use them?

So, a usual workflow:

1. `git rebase -i HEAD~4`
2. do some edits
3. `git add -u && git rebase --continue`

*boom* I get conflicts and I want them to be solved in preference
"theirs". What command do I call here?