# small merge tool for temporary merges

3 messages from 2008-08-03 to 2008-08-10. Participants: Marc Weber, Petr Baudis, Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14822

## Marc Weber, 2008-08-03 16:34

Subject: small merge tool for temporary merges
Message-ID: <20080803163415.GB14513@gmx.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080803163415.GB14513%40gmx.de

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Hi at all,

I'd like to announce the exisntance of my small git test merge tool.

After reading 
 Linux kernel mailing list may remember that Linus complained about such
 too frequent test merges when a subsystem maintainer asked to pull from
 a branch full of "useless merges"
in the man page of git-rerere I had to start it..

$ git clone git://mawercer.de/git-test-merge

=============  =======================================================
small HOWTO:

$ alias gtm=git-test-merge

$ gtm h # show the help
$ gtm s mytestmerge branch{1,2} # define testmerge "mytestmerge" which is formed by merging branch1 and branch2
$ gtm u mytestmerge # merge first using octopus, if it fails merge with
                    # the previous merge result with next branch until
                    # no branches are left to merge

If the merge fails you can resolve the conflicts and run
$ gtm c # you don't have to git-add the resolved files, will be done by the script

I hope its useful for you as well. If you have patches you may push them
instantly.
If it's obsolete because there is a better tool I appreciat you pointing
me to it

Sincerly
Marc Weber

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## Petr Baudis, 2008-08-03 16:58

Subject: Re: small merge tool for temporary merges
Message-ID: <20080803165805.GY32184@machine.or.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080803165805.GY32184%40machine.or.cz
In-Reply-To: <20080803163415.GB14513@gmx.de>

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  Hi,

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 06:34:15PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> I'd like to announce the exisntance of my small git test merge tool.
> 
> After reading 
>  Linux kernel mailing list may remember that Linus complained about such
>  too frequent test merges when a subsystem maintainer asked to pull from
>  a branch full of "useless merges"
> in the man page of git-rerere I had to start it..
> 
> $ git clone git://mawercer.de/git-test-merge

  for the mildly curious ones, your friendly gitweb provider service
offers

	http://repo.or.cz/w/git-test-merge.git

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis

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## Jakub Narebski, 2008-08-10 10:46

Subject: Re: small merge tool for temporary merges
Message-ID: <m3ej4xtafq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3ej4xtafq.fsf%40localhost.localdomain
In-Reply-To: <20080803163415.GB14513@gmx.de>

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Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> writes:

> I'd like to announce the exisntance of my small git test merge tool.
> 
> After reading 
>  Linux kernel mailing list may remember that Linus complained about such
>  too frequent test merges when a subsystem maintainer asked to pull from
>  a branch full of "useless merges"
> in the man page of git-rerere I had to start it..

Could you add it to http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
when you feel it is ready (for example using '/bin/bash' or something
like that in the she-bang (#!) line)?  TIA.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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