Re: Force Confirmation for Dropping Changed Lines

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2017, 23:46 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xo9WBwHjAXeUTn4bh=F6hvw1gA-79h-GmwQoeRpeLj2jQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Mmm, that sounds complex. The "my-code.x" is made up so I could keep
>> my example as simple as possible. In reality, it's Maven's POM files
>> (pom.xml).
>>
>> So there is no setting for any of this? There is no way to switch off
>> auto merging for certain files?
>
> Not really sure, but a quick google search revealed
> https://github.com/ralfth/pom-merge-driver
>
> Maybe that will help you?

Its readme seems to indicate that it is either solving a different problem, or solving the same problem with the opposite goal in mind, in that its goal seems to be to forcibly resolve what textually does not resolve cleanly by choosing sides with an arbitrary policy, so that humans do not have to get involved when they ordinarily would have to.

Hilco's goal sounded to me the opposite---to force conflict even when the two histories did what textually does resolve cleanly and require humans to get involved even when they ordinarily wouldn't have to.