checkout -m --conflict=diff3: add a label for ancestor

git checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflict
hunks including text from the common ancestor.  The added information
is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and merge tools tend to
understand it because it is very similar to what ‘diff3 -m’ produces.

Unlike current git, diff3 -m includes a label for the merge base on
the ||||||| line, and unfortunately, some tools cannot parse the
conflict hunks without it.  Humans can benefit from a cue when
learning to interpreting the format, too.  Mark the start of the text
from the old branch with a label based on the branch’s name.

git rerere does not have trouble parsing this output and its preimage
ids are unchanged since it includes its own code for recreating
conflict hunks.  No other code in git tries to parse conflict hunks.

Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index d652b4c95f9d6059998c1837dd661bb8194e2c56..88b1f43e05e64f0e8dcd6dd0461bbebd6fab1e25 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ static int merge_working_tree(struct checkout_opts *opts,
                        ret = reset_tree(new->commit->tree, opts, 1);
                        if (ret)
                                return ret;
+                       o.ancestor = old->name;
                        o.branch1 = new->name;
                        o.branch2 = "local";
                        merge_trees(&o, new->commit->tree, work,

diff --git a/t/t7201-co.sh b/t/t7201-co.sh
index f3f0c4cfdc9298188834444b0b3391fbc5e549a1..1337fa5a2209d489c43f0a34c95a89053d3fd8bf 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t7201-co.sh
+++ b/t/t7201-co.sh
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 <branch>' '
        a
        c
        e
-       |||||||
+       ||||||| master
        a
        b
        c