Hi Kai,

2014-10-03 8:25 GMT+02:00 Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>:
>
> On Oct 3, 2014 4:22 PM, "Bálint Réczey" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 2014-09-30 21:40 GMT+02:00 Mitchel Humpherys <[email protected]>:
>> > On Thu, Sep 18 2014 at 01:32:25 PM, Kai Willadsen
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> On 16 September 2014 07:26, Mitchel Humpherys <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Looks like a recent update removed the "Merge non-conflicting" item
>> >>> from
>> >>> meld's "Changed" menu.  I thought "Merge All" would be the equivalent
>> >>> option but it always seems to result in not doing "the right thing"
>> >>> like
>> >>> "merge non-conflicting" did.  Is there a replacement workflow for
>> >>> "Merge
>> >>> non-conflicting" followed by manually resolving the remaining
>> >>> conflicts?
>> >>
>> >> "Merge All" is just a rename of the menu item. It does exactly the
>> >> same action that "Merge non-conflicting" used to do, so if anything
>> >> has broken then either it was already like that, or the merging code
>> >> has changed. I don't *think* the merging code has changed much
>> >> recently, but I'd have to double check.
>> >
>> > Hmm, all I know is that I get a bunch of stuff merged to the "middle"
>> > buffer from what I would deem the "wrong side"...  In prior versions of
>> > meld it always seemed to do exactly what I expected and wanted it to do.
>> > I'm not sure when this changed but this is what I'm seeing with meld
>> > 3.12.0.
>> I noticed the change in 3.12.0, too, but unfortunately I have already
>> uploaded
>> 3.12.0 to Debian unstable and it has migrated to testing.
>> I use meld very often for back-porting changes from active Wireshark
>> branches
>> to old ones and meld 1.8.x did what I considered a minimal
>> back-porting preferring
>> changes from the left as I remember. Meld 3.12.0's Merge All started
>> preferring
>> changes from the right which may make sense in some scenarios but breaks
>> my
>> use case, too.
>>
>> I can provide real-life test cases if needed, but they are far from
>> minimal ones. :-)
>
> No, that's actually useful, thanks! One thing that did change was that we
> have a new preference for pane order that affects three pane mode. I can see
> that this may have had unintended consequences for the merging code.
>
> Could you please change your three way merge order preference and see if
> that fixes/works around the problem for you?
I just tested meld 1.8.6 and the first difference was that when merge was fired
running 'git mergetool' meld starts with the before-merge state and 'Merge All'
merges the files, while meld 3.12.0 starts with the files _after_ git
performed the merges.
Pressing 'Merge All' several times switches the preferred side (LOCAL/REMOTE)
which is cool in both versions but I preferred the way 1.8.6 operated
redoing the merge in meld.

Regarding the REMOTE/LOCAL ordering I think the defaults are OK.

Cheers,
Balint
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