From: "G. Sylvie Davies" <syl...@bit-booster.com>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:56:08AM -0500, Michael Spiegel wrote:
I'm trying to determine whether a merge required a conflict to resolve
after the merge has occurred. The git book has some advice
(https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Advanced-Merging) to use
`git show` on the merge commit or use `git log --cc -p -1`. These
strategies work when the merge conflict was resolved with a change
that is different from either parent. When the conflict is resolved
with a change that is the same as one of the parents, then these
commands are indistinguishable from a merge that did not conflict. Is
it possible to distinguish between a conflict-free merge and a merge
conflict that is resolved by with the changes from one the parents?
No. You'd have to replay the merge to know if it would have had
conflicts.
Aside from the usual "git log -cc", I think this should work (replace
HEAD with whichever commit you are analyzing):
git diff --name-only HEAD^2...HEAD^1 > m1
git diff --name-only HEAD^1...HEAD^2 > b1
git diff --name-only HEAD^1..HEAD > m2
git diff --name-only HEAD^2..HEAD > b2
If files listed between m1 and b2 differ, then the merge is dirty.
Similarly for m2 and b1.
More information here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27683077/how-do-you-detect-an-evil-merge-in-git/41356308#41356308
- Sylvie
This feels as though there ought to be some sort of --left-right option to
get an indication of which side various changes came from
There was a patch series a few years ago that added a new diff-mode to
do exactly that, and show the diff against what was resolved. It had a
few issues (I don't remember exactly what) and never got merged.
Certainly one complication is that you don't know exactly _how_ the
merge was done in the first place (e.g., which merge strategy, which
custom merge drivers were in effect, etc). But in general, replaying
with a standard merge-recursive would get you most of what you want to
know.
I've done this manually sometimes when digging into erroneous merges
(e.g., somebody accidentally runs "git reset -- <paths>" in the middle
of a merge and throws away some changes.
You should be able to do:
git checkout $merge^1
git merge $merge^2
git diff -R $merge
to see what the original resolution did.
-Peff
