merge

DRAFT. Better methods from better minds invited!

Situation: Someone has been working away wonderfully on a git branch on your project. You do some crazy stuff with it over the weekend, and when they, on their continnum branch, go git pull --rebase origin continuum and get conflicts they don't know how to deal with, or when they go git fetch origin and git rebase master and have conflicts.

You want to take this off their hands.

Update: Just set it up to be automatic.

For all new projects:

git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always

For existing projects:

git config branch.master.rebase true

Courtesy Randy Fay's blog post, "Simpler Rebasing (avoiding unintentional merge commits)"

git pull --rebase
rebasing applies your changes on top of the fetched commits.

Stricken with fear at the thought of handling a huge conflicted merge file by file, when you know you can just pick one side of the conflict and be done with it?

When

git pull

gives you the bad news...

git mergetool

is usually the first recourse.

Used meld, my default for git mergetool, for the first one. Which fortunately was the only one i wanted to merge manually.

I refused to merge the next one and then took the provided opportunity to cancel the merge.

Then: