[git-users] git blame while resolving merge conflicts

2016-12-25 Thread Salil Surendran
I often rebase a large open source project and there are merge conflicts where I need to figure out who made the change and when it order to decide as to which change to take. So generally what I do is that I go to both repos and look at the file and do a git blame. Is there a mergetool that

Re: [git-users] git blame while resolving merge conflicts

2016-12-25 Thread Philip Oakley
Sali, Both remote repos will have been copied into your local remote tracking branches (you can't do the merge if this has not happened!). This (the fact you all ready have it all locally) can be a difficult concept to grasp until pushed by a problem like this. The refs/remotes// is just

[git-users] git blame while resolving merge conflicts

2016-12-25 Thread Salil Surendran
I often rebase a large open source project and there are merge conflicts where I need to figure out who made the change and when it order to decide as to which change to take. So generally what I do is that I go to both repos and look at the file and do a git blame. Is there a mergetool that will