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Discussion on: How To Avoid Merge Conflicts

 
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Samuyi • Edited

The diff helps to spot conflicts right before they happen. You can then do a

$ git merge -s ours branch2

to use your changes.
or

$ git merge -s theirs branch2

to use their changes.

With this there is no conflict since you have inspected the changes and told git how to resolve the conflict. In essence you have told git what to do before any conflicts occur, since you saw them before hand.

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Jesse Phillips

From my perspective the conflict still exists. The difference is that the tool did not tell you about it, you identified it yourself and instructed git how to resolve it.

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Jesse Phillips

I also would not generally recommend those commands for resolution during a merge multiple conflicts can occur and which side you desire changes based on the conflict, and this ignores a common desire to accurately merge the two changes.