On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:57, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>
> Why not just "fossil revert my/file.txt"?
>

For each one of dozens of files in the manifest??

I tried

$ fossil revert

and it reverts the contents of all files but at the same time it also removes
merge record (clears vmerge table).
All I want is to record a new merge parent without merging in file contents.

--Leo--

>>
>> 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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