Re: more merge strategies : feature request

It's not clear to me exactly what you want. Let's say I have a file
 ....

I'm afraid I don't fully understand your example


lets say git merge foo bar
foo          bar
1             1
2              8
3              3
4              4
5              5
6
7

lines 6 and 7 are new in foo line 2 has a conflict because the other
head has an 8, history wise because of an early merge the other
direction and fix, there was the 8 in foo and it was changed to a 2,
when I merge back it will overwrite the 8 with  a 2. however I need
the 8 to be the 8 and the 2 to be the 2. but I want the 6 and 7 in
both.

conflict would create a conflict

such as

foo
1
<<<<<< bar
8
======
2

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 foo

3
4
5
6
7

no overwrite would result in file1 looking like this

1
8
3
4
5
6
7

 Did you want conflict markers in the resulting file? If so, what should
 the conflict markers look like, since there isn't actually a conflict?

if the the remote and local branches are not identical there's a
difference which should be able to result in a conflict. for all
purposes I'm not sure git couldn't just ignore the history of the
files and do a straight head to head merge.  the steps you suggest
make it more complicated than it needs to be an if done post merge or
without merge will probably be need to be done again in a future merge
if merging back and forth


-- 
Caleb Cushing