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Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)

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RBRuss Brown <pickscrape@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 27, 2007, 19:00 UTC
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Pierre Habouzit wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:31:19PM +0000, Kelvie Wong wrote:
>> At work, I've been using a git-svn import for my daily workflow (still
>> somewhat of a git newbie, but now has come to the point where it's
>> tough to work without it), and while rebasing from svn (on a rather
>> old branch), I found that the mergetool option does not work too well
>> for me.
> 
>   Which tool are you using ? kdiff3 ? I've noticed that it often fails
> miserably, or worse, create bad merges silentely with it.
> 
>   And as none of the other merge tool that are supported are able to
> either do 3way merges, or have a decent UI (that definitely seems to be
> exclusive features) I've given up on git-mergetool (and to be fair, it
> sucks, because it could be _sooo_ useful sometimes).
> 
What about meld? That does 3-way merge, and the UI is fine.
-- 
Russ
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  1. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  2. Pierre HabouzitSep 27, 2007
  3. Russ BrownSep 27, 2007
  4. Pierre HabouzitSep 27, 2007
  5. Theodore TsoSep 27, 2007
  6. Pierre HabouzitSep 27, 2007
  7. Peter BaumannSep 28, 2007
  8. Pierre HabouzitSep 28, 2007
  9. Jeff KingSep 27, 2007
  10. Pierre HabouzitSep 27, 2007
  11. Jeff KingSep 27, 2007
  12. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  14. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  16. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  19. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  20. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2007
  23. Kelvie WongSep 27, 2007
  24. Theodore TsoSep 27, 2007
  25. Kelvie WongSep 28, 2007
  26. David KastrupSep 28, 2007
  27. Theodore TsoSep 27, 2007
  28. David KågedalSep 28, 2007

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