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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 19 2024, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:

> 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?

       -X <strategy-option>, --strategy-option=<strategy-option>
           Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy. This
           implies --merge and, if no strategy has been specified, -s ort.
           Note the reversal of ours and theirs as noted above for the -m
           option.

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