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Initial situation

$ git log --oneline base
be4abab add git-resolve-conflict script
...

$ git log --oneline master
0ea4d05 1.0.2
d94a1dc change in master: add dependencies
386ae99 1.0.1
6160dea change in master
be4abab add git-resolve-conflict script
...

$ git log --oneline develop
f2fefc6 2.0.1
b8c66c9 change in develop
263aa5f 2.0.0
be4abab add git-resolve-conflict script
...

Goal

We want to merge develop into master and auto-resolve conflicts in package.json using strategy --ours

$ git log --oneline merge_master_to_develop
7cde612 Merge branch 'master' into merge_master_to_develop
0ea4d05 1.0.2
d94a1dc change in master: add dependencies
f2fefc6 2.0.1
b8c66c9 change in develop
263aa5f 2.0.0
386ae99 1.0.1
6160dea change in master
be4abab add git-resolve-conflict script
...

We need to be cautious

We have changes in master that would be lost on merge if we did a brutal git checkout --ours package.json

$ git show master^
commit d94a1dc5ff0aba1c0d9c2a3dd8f9bec3147578d2
Author: jakub-g <jakub.g.opensource@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 24 14:13:16 2016 +0200

    change in master: add dependencies

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f709434..a609d8c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "foobar": "1.0.0",
+    "quux": "2.0.0"
+  },
   "author": "",
   "license": "ISC"
 }

Let's merge

$ git checkout develop
Switched to branch 'develop'

$ git checkout -b merge_master_to_develop
Switched to a new branch 'merge_master_to_develop'

$ git merge master
Auto-merging package.json
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in package.json
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

me@mymachine /d/git/merge-file-ours-poc (merge_master_to_develop *+|MERGING)
$ git diff
diff --cc package.json
index 75c469b,f709434..0000000
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@@ -1,6 -1,6 +1,12 @@@
  {
    "name": "merge-file-ours-poc",
++<<<<<<< HEAD
 +  "version": "2.0.1",
++||||||| merged common ancestors
++  "version": "1.0.0",
++=======
+   "version": "1.0.2",
++>>>>>>> master
    "description": "merge-file-ours proof of concept\r ================================",
    "main": "index.js",
    "scripts": {

me@mymachine /d/git/merge-file-ours-poc (merge_master_to_develop *+|MERGING)
$ cat package.json
{
  "name": "merge-file-ours-poc",
<<<<<<< HEAD
  "version": "2.0.1",
||||||| merged common ancestors
  "version": "1.0.0",
=======
  "version": "1.0.2",
>>>>>>> master
  "description": "merge-file-ours proof of concept\r ================================",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "foobar": "1.0.0",
    "quux": "2.0.0"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

git-resolve-conflict to the rescue

######################################################################################
##          doing `git checkout --ours package.json` at this point is WRONG!        ##
##                it would lose the changes in `master^` commit                     ##
##                            we need something better                              ##
######################################################################################


me@mymachine /d/gh/merge-file-ours-poc (merge_master_to_develop *+|MERGING)
$ source ./git-resolve-conflict.sh

$ git-resolve-conflict
Usage:   git-resolve-conflict <strategy> <file>

Example: git-resolve-conflict --ours package.json
Example: git-resolve-conflict --union package.json
Example: git-resolve-conflict --theirs package.json

$ git-resolve-conflict --ours package.json

$ git diff

$ git diff --cached
diff --git a/added-in-master.txt b/added-in-master.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cef8af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/added-in-master.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+added in master
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 75c469b..03f513b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
   "scripts": {
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "foobar": "1.0.0",
+    "quux": "2.0.0"
+  },
   "author": "",
   "license": "ISC"
 }

$ git status
On branch merge_master_to_develop
All conflicts fixed but you are still merging.
  (use "git commit" to conclude merge)

Changes to be committed:

        new file:   added-in-master.txt
        modified:   package.json

$ git commit
[merge_master_to_develop aed5278] Merge branch 'master' into merge_master_to_develop

Final situation

me@mymachine /d/gh/merge-file-ours-poc (merge_master_to_develop)
$ cat package.json
{
  "name": "merge-file-ours-poc",
  "version": "2.0.1",
  "description": "merge-file-ours proof of concept\r ================================",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "foobar": "1.0.0",
    "quux": "2.0.0"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

Everything is fine, merge resolved correctly!

  • version is 2.0.1 (taken from develop)
  • dependencies are not lost (taken from master)