On Thursday, 26 January 2017 16:37:16 UTC-5, Magnus Therning wrote:
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> Stephen Morton <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes:
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> > I'm looking for a git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots
> > of conflicts requiring multiple people. I can make it work, and I
> > understand git, but it all seems kind of awkward and it feels like
> > there must be a better way.
> >
> > I've got a big git merge to do. There are lots of conflicts and it
> > requires many people to resolve them all.
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> Have you looked at git-imerge?
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No, I had not looked at git imerge. It looks interesting for some of the
merges we do. Thanks.
git imerge is of course a tool to help you to resolve the conflicts in a
big merge. My question really was much more along the lines of once the
conflicts are resolved, what is the best way to arrange the commits/merges
(the DAG) to represent a complex multi-step conflict resolution in git. So
although very useful-looking, 'git imerge' isn't really an answer to my
question. However, I see from the docs/video that 'git imerge' has a number
of optional solutions to my question when running its finish/simplify
command: [merge, rebase, rebase-with-history, full]. I imagine most people
eventually just take 'merge' or 'rebase'. The 'rebase-with-history' and
'full' options are interesting and do present a novel 'more git-y' solution
to my problem, although you can really only achieve them using something
like 'git imerge'.
So it looks to me like really if not using something like 'git imerge'
from the beginning, if just resolving all the conflicts as a series of
commits after the fact, there is not more 'git-y' way to do what I want to
do. We will resolve all the conflicts as described originally works and
then just use that final state to make one single merge commit to represent
the whole merge, perhaps saving all the conflict resolutions in a branch
for posterity.
Steve
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