Re: how do I resolve this merge manually + mergetool bug
From: Caleb Cushing <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:16
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Charles Bailey [off-list ref] wrote:
I'll look at adding a test case to mergetool and see how easy it is to get it to handle this case better.
few weeks back I created a patch for mergetool, it was rejected ultimately on the basis that it had to cleanup temporary files and in reality this was a problem with a lot of mergetool, the suggestion was made that mergetool needs refactoring. I believe this problem is a similar symptom. basically mergetool should touch my files before I tell it what to do. if it has to move and back up my files before deciding then at the very least it should copy them back into place if I delete the remote. preferably in this case though it would just delete the remote or backup my local files and copy the remote in after I told it what to do (or maybe even delete my local files). -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com