I know how to merge modification using vimdiff, but, assuming I just know that the entire file is good to keep or to throw away, how do I do that?
I don't want to open vimdiff for each of them, I change want a command that says 'keep local' or 'keep remote'.
E.G: I got a merge with files marked as changed because somebody opened it under windows, changing the EOL, and then commited. When merging, I want to just keep my own version and discard his.
I'm also interested in the contrary: I screwed up big time and want to accept the remote file, discarding my changes.
You can as well do:
git checkout --theirs /path/to/file
to keep the remote file, and:
git checkout --ours /path/to/file
to keep local file.
Then git add
them and everything is done.
This approach seems more straightforward, avoiding the need to individually select each file:
# keep remote files
git merge --strategy-option theirs
# keep local files
git merge --strategy-option ours
or
# keep remote files
git pull -Xtheirs
# keep local files
git pull -Xours
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Resolve Git merge conflicts in favor of their changes during a pull
For the line-end thingie, refer to man git-merge
:
--ignore-space-change
--ignore-all-space
--ignore-space-at-eol
Be sure to add autocrlf = false
and/or safecrlf = false
to the windows clone (.git/config)
Using git mergetool
If you configure a mergetool like this:
git config mergetool.cp.cmd '/bin/cp -v "$REMOTE" "$MERGED"'
git config mergetool.cp.trustExitCode true
Then a simple
git mergetool --tool=cp
git mergetool --tool=cp -- paths/to/files.txt
git mergetool --tool=cp -y -- paths/to/files.txt # without prompting
Will do the job
Using simple git commands
In other cases, I assume
git checkout HEAD -- path/to/myfile.txt
should do the trick
Edit to do the reverse (because you screwed up):
git checkout remote/branch_to_merge -- path/to/myfile.txt
git checkout {branch-name} -- {file-name}
This will use the file from the branch of choice.
I like this because posh-git
autocomplete works great with this. It also removes any ambiguity as to which branch is remote and which is local.
And --theirs
didn't work for me anyways.