Re: How to resolve mixture of modified and deleted conflicts easily in git?

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
> When doing a rebase, sometimes I will get `DU` and `UU` conflicts
> (locally deleted and locally modified, respectively). Furthermore, in
> some of these cases, I want to take "ours" for all conflicts,
> including ones where the local file is deleted. Ideally, it's just one
> command:
>
>    $ git checkout --ours .
>
> However, this fails for the locally deleted conflicts:
>
>    error: path 'foo.xml' does not have our version
>
> Even more annoyingly, the fact that these failures occur prevents the
> `UU` conflicts from being resolved. The whole operation fails
> atomically. I am not aware of a straightforward and uniform way to
> resolve conflicts with "ours" during a rebase when locally deleted
> files exist in the list of conflicts. What is the most elegant
> solution in this situation?
>
> I'm running Git for Windows v2.13.1.

Can you give the example commands and response?

In particular note the comment in the rebase command that the ours/theirs 
viewpoints are swapped, so you may find your stated "ours" should be (mid 
rebase) seen as "theirs".
--
Philip