From: Russ Brown <pickscrape@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:00:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FBFDD7.1080300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927185707.GC12427@artemis.corp>
Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:31:19PM +0000, Kelvie Wong wrote:
>> At work, I've been using a git-svn import for my daily workflow (still
>> somewhat of a git newbie, but now has come to the point where it's
>> tough to work without it), and while rebasing from svn (on a rather
>> old branch), I found that the mergetool option does not work too well
>> for me.
>
> Which tool are you using ? kdiff3 ? I've noticed that it often fails
> miserably, or worse, create bad merges silentely with it.
>
> And as none of the other merge tool that are supported are able to
> either do 3way merges, or have a decent UI (that definitely seems to be
> exclusive features) I've given up on git-mergetool (and to be fair, it
> sucks, because it could be _sooo_ useful sometimes).
>
What about meld? That does 3-way merge, and the UI is fine.
--
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 18:31 Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3) Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 18:57 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-27 19:00 ` Russ Brown [this message]
2007-09-27 19:11 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-27 22:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-27 22:28 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-28 5:15 ` Peter Baumann
2007-09-28 6:35 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-27 19:12 ` Jeff King
2007-09-27 19:16 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-27 19:41 ` Jeff King
2007-09-27 19:24 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 20:12 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 20:38 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 21:17 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 21:22 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 21:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 22:23 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-27 22:52 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-28 4:17 ` Kelvie Wong
2007-09-28 6:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 22:35 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-28 8:43 ` David Kågedal
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