On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Santi Béjar <santi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Kristian Amlie > <kristian.amlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hey, I have question about advanced merging. >> >> Suppose I have a huge merge with conflicts all over the place. There is no >> way to avoid them, so I start working from the top. At some point, however, >> I make a mistake and lose the merge information for one file (for example by >> checking out the file from HEAD). >> >> In that case I would like to get the conflict markers back, and do that file >> over again, but I don't want to throw away the rest of the index state. >> Currently the only way I can see to do this is by checking out several file >> versions under different names and then using git merge-file on them. >> >> Is there a better way to achieve this? > > If the different versions are still in the index you could use: > > $ git checkout --merge $file Note that this is very new, as it was introduced in v1.6.0.1-26-geac5a40, so you'll need at least 1.6.0.2. Santi -- 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
