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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New tool: merge-driver-ekeyword automatically resolves git merge conflicts involving KEYWORDS=...
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:54:27
Message-Id: CAEdQ38H=mnqk+hszw4swK1PxOzbB+Vy=fd8Pw5XbwFh8aJED3w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New tool: merge-driver-ekeyword automatically resolves git merge conflicts involving KEYWORDS=... by "Wolfgang E. Sanyer"
1 On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:11 AM Wolfgang E. Sanyer
2 <wolfgangesanyer@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Git diff has --color-word, doesn't this suggest that it has the capability of identifying these word-by-word changes?
4
5 No, git diff has that feature. That doesn't imply that the default
6 merge driver has that feature.
7
8 > Is there perhaps a merge option that is being overlooked?
9
10 At least not one the upstream git developers know about. (I asked)