On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:54:17PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Thus resulting in a 'wrong way around' merge as part of master? It > would say "Merge branch 'master' into otherbranch", while what > happened was "Merge branch 'otherbranch' into master". > > So, in short: what does the list think about adding > "git-merge-theirs", that does (although possibly less 'hackish'): > > cat > git-merge-theirs << EOF > #!/bin/sh > eval git read-tree --reset -u \\\$\$# > EOF I ran into this exact situation while showing somebody how awesome git was, and it was a little embarrasing to say "oops, now we have to do this backwards." So I think it would be nice for completeness, although I admit that my situation was rare (but no rarer, perhaps, than "-s ours"). -Peff PS You may find your shell snippet a bit more readable by quoting 'EOF'. -- 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