Re: Looking for a helper for advanced conflicts resolution.

[Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 23:27, Michael Heerdegen
> <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>> > To aid in resolution of complex conflicts, I'd like to know if there is
>> > a tool in Emacs that, given diff3-style 3-way conflict output, would
>> > convert it into 2 simple diffs: "mine" changes from common ancestor, and
>> > "yours" changes from common ancestor. Does anybody know about one?
>>
>> Doesn't "smerge" do that (`smerge-diff-base-upper',
>> `smerge-diff-base-lower', `smerge-diff-upper-lower')?
>
> +1 to smerge. In the majority of complex conflicts I face, I can
> toggle ‘smerge-refine’ a couple times, choose one side that has the
> easier diff, and manually apply it to the other side. I don’t even
> have to see the 2-way diffs.

Thanks for the tip! I now can't even believe I didn't look as smerge
myself, even though I was aware it exists!

-- Sergey