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Request for adding a "clean" merge strategy for a double-commit merge to deal with conflicts separately

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AAlireza <rezaxm@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 16, 2020, 17:15 UTC
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Hi,

Even though the merge commit's message includes conflicted files by default, the *resolution* itself is lost, that is, it's hard or impossible to review how the author *resolved* said conflicts.

The proposal is that an option like `-X clean` would commit a clean merge and leave out any conflicting hunks in the tree for a follow-up commit to resolve conflicts.

That would be extremely helpful for a code reviewer to see how a possibly external contributor has dealt with upstream changes e.g. in a long-standing branch.

Any comment would be appreciated.

Thanks, Alireza

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  3. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2020
  4. AlirezaJul 21, 2020
  5. Elijah NewrenJul 21, 2020
  6. AlirezaJul 21, 2020
  7. Elijah NewrenJul 21, 2020
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