Re: Question: start mergetool with trivial differences already handled?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Uri Okrent wrote:

> I haven't found this to be the case.  Is there a merge tool that can
> do this?  I had assumed that git used some magic using the project's
> history in order to resolve conflicts in a smart way.  Will a merge tool
> that only has $THEIRS, $OURS, and $BASE have enough information to
> resolve conflicts as smart as git itself does when it produces the
> unmerged file in your working tree?

Git uses only $THEIRS, $OURS, and $BASE to do the merge. It doesn't look
at the interim history at all.

> > Most of the tools that mergetool supports out-of-the-box perform 3-way
> > diffs, so I guess I'm curious what merge tool you're using.
> I use xxdiff or diffuse (or more frequently, vim ;))

If you're using xxdiff, try "Global > Merge" from the menu (or the
Ctrl-Alt-M shortcut) to have it automatically merge any non-contentious
bits.

-Peff