Re: Question about "git commit -a"

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 12:17 UTC
Message-ID: <47062B4C.5090503@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <vpqsl4piykb.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
>>>> or check which merge- conflicts you've already resolved,
>>> At least bzr and baz have this kind of conflict management. It's just
>>> a separate file, containing the list of unresolved conflicts.
>> Can you check them against any revision you want? If so, I'm
>> impressed :)
> 
> If you mean s/check/diff/, not in a simple way, no. Otherwise, I don't
> understand what you mean by "check merge-conflicts you've already
> resolved against any revision".
>

Actually, I meant "diff the staged area against any random commit". It's really nice to do after a bisect, where you know what the bad commit looks like, and how the code changed to introduce the bug.

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