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Re: Conflict markers in mergetool $LOCAL ?

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2010, 09:32 UTC
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<20100817093246.GB26357@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:30:23AM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:34:20AM +0000, Seth House wrote:
> > [...]
> > For small conflicts, I like the conflict markers and simply editing the
> > conflicted file with Vim. For files with lots of conflicts I would like to use
> > vimdiff but I wouldn't expect the conflict markers to appear there -- it's
> > redundant information in a 3-way merge.
> > 
> > Is there a better Git Way (TM) that I'm missing? Is my Git setup borked
> > somehow?
> > 
> > I have the following in my ~/.gitconfig and a stock Git installation on Arch
> > Linux.
> > 
> > [merge]
> >     tool = vimdiff
> 
> 
> What happens if you remove this section?:
> 
> > [mergetool "vimdiff"]
> >     cmd = vimdiff
> >     trustExitCode = true
> 
> mergetool has built-in support for vimdiff.
> You shouldn't need to define mergetool.vimdiff.cmd.

Typo, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Should say: mergetool.cmd.vimdiff

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	David
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