Git resolve merge conflicts binary file

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I've been using Git on Windows msysgit to track changes for some design work I've been doing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Kevin Wilson Kevin Wilson 7, 8 8 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Zitrax Did you diff the file after running git checkout --ours?

I believe you will need to run git add after the checkout. Note: you still want to do "git add conflicted-file. Handily, when I tried it, the commit message was pre-populated with a note about the conflict.

A couple of important points that's always missing in explanations of this topic. When doing rebase instead of merge, the meaning of --their and --ours are swapped, i.

The [space]--[space] option disambiguates to path spec between branch name and path spec that both happen to exist with the same name e. Show 4 more comments. You have to resolve the conflict manually copying the file over and then commit the file no matter if you copied it over or used the local version like this git commit -a -m "Fix merge conflict in test. Please mark mipadis answer as the correct one.

VolkA VolkA Thanks for that. I wasn't sure if there was some sort of build-in way to mark a file as the 'correct' one. Explains why I couldn't find the non-existent command though! Yep, thats a bit unintuitive - something like git resolve would be nice, but would also be an extra step RobM RobM 7, 2 2 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges.

To inform git that the conflict is resolved, git add the original filename, and you can then finish the merge commit. Joshua Flanagan Joshua Flanagan 8, 2 2 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. I prefer this variant over the accepted answer, because it is more intuitive, especially considering that the meaning of those "--ours" and "--theirs" is swapped in case of rebasing. Brian Webster Brian Webster This procedure is to resolve binary file conflicts after you have submitted a pull request to Github: So on Github, you found your pull request has a conflict on a binary file.

Now go back to the same git branch on your local computer. Then you push this same git branch again to Github. How to resolve a binary file conflict with Git 29 January, It was a Friday. When performing a merge in git , you might see the message: warning: Cannot merge binary files: HEAD:somefile. Resolve using mine The file in your working copy is still the copy from your current branch — in other words, it was not modified by the merge attempt.

To resolve the conflict and keep this file: git add somefile.