Wondering if <https youtrack jetbrains com issue IDEA 86700 kotlinlang #intellij

in terminal shows much more useful diff than IJ, even though it’s much easier to revert chunks in IJ 😕 Is there an option to use the diff generated by local

git

installation?

christophsturm

02/10/2023, 12:17 PM

“not kotlin”, but voted on the ticket anyway. on the topic of diffs: I really don’t understand the merge view. I do all my merges manually by scrolling through the file and removing the conflict markers.

wasyl

02/10/2023, 12:24 PM

ah right, forgot this is Kotlin slack and not Jetbrains Slack, sorry 😬 I wanted to open a new issue to remind someone but figured posting here might be a better idea

I do all my merges manually by scrolling through the file and removing the conflict markers.

Same here, but I think I just don’t grok how merging tools in general should be used. Seems much faster to e.g. remove all the conflict markers from imports and let IJ sort them out itself

christophsturm

02/10/2023, 12:26 PM

right. its totally possible that I just don’t understand how the merge ui is supposed to be used.

one thing I do know: a dedicated tool like kaleidoscope.app show much nicer diffs than idea (or github)

Marit van Dijk

02/10/2023, 2:24 PM

Also "not Kotlin" but I did do a video on

Resolving Merge Conflicts in IntelliJ IDEA▾

if that helps?

christophsturm

02/10/2023, 2:25 PM

“Not kotlin” but I’m going to watch it now.

cool, I will definately try out the merge conflict ui next time I have a merge conflict. One question: what is the difference between “Accept Left/Right Side” and “Resolve using Left/Right”?

Marit van Dijk

02/10/2023, 2:48 PM

"Accept Left/Right Side” accepts the changes from selected side, but leaves any changes from the other side. “Resolve using Left/Right” accepts the changes from selected side and ignores the changes from the other side.

So if you know you want to accept one side & ignore the other, "resolve" is faster (one step instead of 2)

christophsturm

02/10/2023, 3:26 PM

makes sense!

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