NAME

git-check-merge-conflicts - Find merge conflicts between branches in a git repository.

SYNOPSIS

    git-check-merge-conflicts [options] <branch1> [<branch2> ...]

DESCRIPTION

This script finds potential merge conflicts between branches so that you don't have to find out when doing the actual merge. Conflicts are displayed using the output of the git diff command.

Internally this runs git merge --no-commit branch followed by a git merge --abort for each of the branches given on the command line. If there are merge conflicts between any two branches, the respective git diff outut can be used to see the actual conflicts.

OPTIONS

-verbose, -v

By default, git-check-merge-conflicts only tells you which branches had conflicts. The -verbose|-v option gives you slightly more verbose output that tells you which files had conflicts.

You can add a second -verbose or -v to get the git-diff output.

-branch-as-prefix

This makes diff output use the branch name as the prefix in its output. By default git-diff uses a and b. So instead of

    a/path/file
    b/path/file

You'll get

    branch1:path/file
    branch2:path/file

For all other options see the git diff documentation (in particular for --word-diff).

INTERFACE

current_branch

Return the current branch. This just calls git branch and finds the one with a * next to it.

find_conflicts

Assuming we have found a merge conflict, find all files with merge conflicts. This uses the git ls-files -u command internally.

process_conflicts

For all known files with conflicts on a given branch, run git diff (with various options) and display the output.

process_command_options

Process options entered on the command-line for specific git commands they'll eventually be handed off to.

local_branches

Returns a list of the local branches (including the current one).

non_relevant_files

Returns list of files that would normally be removed by git-clean.

working_dir_clean

Check to see that there are no uncommitted changes in the working directory.

DEPENDENCIES

git

This uses the Git.pm module in the Git project.

SEE ALSO

git diff

cpanm App::Git::CheckMergeConflicts

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::Git::CheckMergeConflicts