Binary file-friendly merge -Xours or -Xtheirs?

2012-09-07 Thread Stephen Bash
Hi all- Helping a coworker resolve merge conflicts today I found I wanted a -Xtheirs that completely replaces conflicted binary files with the copy from the incoming branch. In other words rather than doing $ git merge maint ... conflicts occur ... $ git checkout --theirs --

Re: Binary file-friendly merge -Xours or -Xtheirs?

2012-09-07 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stephen Bash b...@genarts.com writes: From reading the docs it's obvious the current -Xours and -Xtheirs expect to work on hunks, so I (mostly) understand the current behavior, but as a user it feels like I'm telling you how to resolve conflicts, please do the same thing for binary files.