Re: theirs/ours was Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy

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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'.
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