Nix wrote: > And the problem is that while git has a lot of strategies for merging > *trees*, its file merge system is totally unpluggable: it just falls > back to xdiff's merging system. I guess I'll have to add that feature :) Not true. You can add custom diff driver for files using gitattributes system. > (How does this cope with binary files, I wonder? I seem to recall > something about that flying past back before the volume of the git list > overwhelmed me...) xdiff has binary diff, and git has some kind of "ascii-armored" binary diff output. As to how to merge binary files: I suspect that they always conflict, unless the merge is trivial. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
