The simplest way to let merge conflicts happen, and
restore versions from an older commit if you know the file artifact ids:

fossil artifact a59bd2322 > my/file.txt

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 14:14, Leo Razoumov <slonik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> GIT has a useful merge strategy "git merge -s ours" that always
> chooses our current version over the version being merged in. The
> resulting merge has exactly the same files contents as its base
> parent. The only difference being that the commit merged in is now
> added to the list of merge parents.
>
> How to achieve the same effect in fossil??
>
> For those who wonder why do I need such a thing here is a use case. I
> tend to commit very often. In order to prevent polluting public
> branches I work mostly on private branches periodically merging the
> changes (when they are in good shape) into public branches. When
> merging private branch into a public one fossil does not record
> private branch as a merge parent (and for a good reason!).  Often I do
> have a suitable merge parent candidate. How do I trick fossil into
> just adding a commit into manifest's  "P" card to make it a merge
> parent??
>
> --Leo--
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