Re: Force Confirmation for Dropping Changed Lines

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> writes:

> On 25 January 2017 at 18:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I think you should be able to do something like
>>
>>         $ cat >$HOME/bin/fail-3way <<\EOF
>>         #!/bin/sh
>>         git merge-file "$@"
>>         exit 1
>>         EOF
>>         $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/fail-3way
>>         $ cat >>$HOME/.gitconfig <<\EOF
>>         [merge "fail"]
>>                 name = always fail 3-way merge
>>                 driver = $HOME/bin/fail-3way %A %O %B
>>                 recursive = text
>>         EOF
>>         $ echo pom.xml merge=fail >>.gitattributes
>>
>> to define a custom merge driver whose name is "fail", that runs the
>> fail-3way program, which runs the bog standard 3-way merge we use
>> (so that it will do the best-effort textual merge) but always return
>> with a non-zero status to signal that the result is conflicting and
>> needs manual resolution.
>
> Thank you, that's an improvement. :-) Unfortunately, it still
> completes the merge. Is there any way to simply get the
>>>>>>>>>/<<<<<<<< markers?

You can, but you need to write one yourself without relying on "git
merge-file", because the whole point of the 3way merge we implement
(including in that program) is "do not bother the user when both
sides made the same change."