Re: Segfault with merge-tree on multiple Git versions

> Charlie Smurthwaite <charlie@atechmedia.com> writes:
>
>> I am also using this to obtain a diff that would be applied if a merge
>> were to be run. Is there a better way to obtain this information that is
>> more commonly used?
> You can do an actual merge using detached HEAD:
>
>    $ git checkout --detach upstream-branch
>    $ git merge topic-branch
>
> This has the benefit that if there are conflicts, you can resolve them
> here and commit the result so that rerere can auto-resolve them later.
>
> Are you looking for something that can be run in a bare repo?