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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Dan LaManna <me@danlamanna.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Performing a 4 way diff with ediff
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:55:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21sw64fzr.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484353663.1309303.847275520.34F44A3C@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Dan LaManna's message of "Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:27:43 -0500")

>>>>> "DL" == Dan LaManna <me@danlamanna.com> writes:

DL> I've been using ediff to resolve merge conflicts in git and it has the
DL> typical windows: ours, theirs, and merged results. However, I often want
DL> to see a 4th window (I believe this is called a 4 way diff) which is the
DL> common ancestor of ours and theirs (A and B). I believe such functionality
DL> exists in vimdiff - is there an ediff (or other emacs tool) offering
DL> similar functionality to this?

Based on this stack overflow answer, maybe not yet:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15587595/can-ediff-merge-simultaneously-show-the-ancestor-a-b-and-merge-buffers

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John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-14  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-14  0:27 Performing a 4 way diff with ediff Dan LaManna
2017-01-14  0:55 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2017-01-20 11:19   ` Philipp Stephani

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