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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian•com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: merge -s theirs  is not in effect (does the same as -s ours)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:08:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwp4nfuv1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170925000213.rilmsczdbi3jqkta@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu> (Yaroslav Halchenko's message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:02:13 -0400")

Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@onerussian•com> writes:

> My interest was to get remote branch "merge" the changes in the
> branch taking the branch's version (primarily alternative symlinks
> for git-annex'ed content) over the version in master (previous
> merge of a similar branch).  Unfortunately -s theirs seems to do
> actually -s ours

What does

    ls $(git --exec-path) | grep git-merge

say?  

The official Git never shipped "git-merge-theirs" as far as I know,
and it should not exist (neither should "git merge -s theirs"; you
can use "git reset --hard theirs" instead).




  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-25  0:02 BUG: merge -s theirs is not in effect (does the same as -s ours) Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-25  1:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-09-25  3:17   ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-25  5:33     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2017-09-25 14:30       ` -X theirs does not resolve symlink conflict Was: BUG: merge -s theirs is not in effect Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-26  1:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-26  2:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-26  2:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-26 13:37               ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-10-16  5:38                 ` [PATCH] merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to symbolic link merge Junio C Hamano
2017-12-29  2:49                   ` Elijah Newren
2017-12-29  4:41                     ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2018-01-25  4:35                   ` external diff driver is not used for diff --stat? Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-25 14:40       ` -s theirs use-case(s) Was: BUG: merge -s theirs is not in effect Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-26  3:45         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-26 13:32           ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-27  0:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-27  5:19               ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2017-09-27 20:21                 ` Yaroslav Halchenko

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