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From: ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Feature request] autoresolve modify/delete conflict via .gitattributes merge= attribute
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 14:56:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1a8afe2-df78-40d9-9866-d49dc4057806@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi. This is also described in this SO question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58767528/how-to-specify-a-git-merge-ours-strategy-with-gitattributes-for-deleted-files

Our proprietary IDE generates theme-cache/web/theme.compiled.css and the contents are different on different machines.
This file was supposed to be in .gitignore, but it slipped into the repo.
I was trying to remove the file, but other developers silently re-introduce it into the repo. Here's what happens:
- The proprietary IDE re-generates the file and makes a local commit.
- The IDE does "pull --rebase" which results in a "deleted by us" conflict
- The IDE immediately re-generates the file, clearing the conflicted state
- Even though it's in .gitignore, the file remains under version control because of the cherry-pick by rebase

I was hoping that adding a certain merge= attribute for this file would help, but apparently it only considered when two files are merged, not when one is deleted.


             reply	other threads:[~2024-11-06 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-06 11:56 ilya Basin [this message]
2024-11-07  0:34 ` [Feature request] autoresolve modify/delete conflict via .gitattributes merge= attribute brian m. carlson

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