From 3b4db3c1a3b9be66b46d8bd64560ee3f14f1084d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:30:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: Improve the display of merge conflicts.

If a file has a merge conflict we want it to show up in the 'Changed
But Not Updated' file list rather than the 'Changes To Be Committed'
file list.  This way the user can mostly ignore the left side (the
HEAD<->index comparsion) while resolving a merge and instead focus
on the merge conflicts, which are just shown on the right hand side.

This requires detecting the U state in the index side and drawing
it as though it were _, then forcing the working directory side to
have a U state.  We have to delay this until presentation time as
we don't want to change our internal state data to be different
from what Git is telling us (I tried, the patch for that was ugly
and didn't work).

When showing a working directory diff and its a merge conflict we
don't want to use diff-files as this would wind up showing any
automatically merged hunks obtained from MERGE_HEAD in the diff.
These are not usually very interesting as they were completed by
the system.  Instead we just want to see the conflicts.  Fortunately
the diff porcelain-ish frontend (aka 'git diff') detects the case of
an unmerged file and generates a --cc diff against HEAD and MERGE_HEAD.
So we now force any working directory diff with an index state of 'U'
to go through that difference path.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 git-gui.sh | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 64c2ae30e7..2d130faba4 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -654,7 +654,11 @@ proc show_diff {path w {lno {}}} {
 		lappend cmd diff-index
 		lappend cmd --cached
 	} elseif {$w eq $ui_workdir} {
-		lappend cmd diff-files
+		if {[string index $m 0] eq {U}} {
+			lappend cmd diff
+		} else {
+			lappend cmd diff-files
+		}
 	}
 
 	lappend cmd -p
@@ -1293,12 +1297,20 @@ proc display_file {path state} {
 	set new_m [lindex $s 0]
 	set icon_name [lindex $s 1]
 
+	set s [string index $new_m 0]
+	if {$s eq {U}} {
+		set s _
+	}
 	display_file_helper	$ui_index $path $icon_name \
-		[string index $old_m 0] \
-		[string index $new_m 0]
+		[string index $old_m 0] $s
+
+	if {[string index $new_m 0] eq {U}} {
+		set s U
+	} else {
+		set s [string index $new_m 1]
+	}
 	display_file_helper	$ui_workdir $path $icon_name \
-		[string index $old_m 1] \
-		[string index $new_m 1]
+		[string index $old_m 1] $s
 
 	if {$new_m eq {__}} {
 		unset file_states($path)
@@ -1338,13 +1350,20 @@ proc display_all_files {} {
 		set m [lindex $s 0]
 		set icon_name [lindex $s 1]
 
-		if {[string index $m 0] ne {_}} {
+		set s [string index $m 0]
+		if {$s ne {U} && $s ne {_}} {
 			display_all_files_helper $ui_index $path \
-				$icon_name [string index $m 0]
+				$icon_name $s
 		}
-		if {[string index $m 1] ne {_}} {
+
+		if {[string index $m 0] eq {U}} {
+			set s U
+		} else {
+			set s [string index $m 1]
+		}
+		if {$s ne {_}} {
 			display_all_files_helper $ui_workdir $path \
-				$icon_name [string index $m 1]
+				$icon_name $s
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1479,7 +1498,13 @@ proc write_update_index {fd pathList totalCnt batch msg after} {
 		?D {set new D_}
 		_O -
 		AM {set new A_}
-		U_ -
+		U? {
+			if {[file exists $path]} {
+				set new M_
+			} else {
+				set new D_
+			}
+		}
 		?M {set new M_}
 		?? {continue}
 		}
@@ -2244,6 +2269,7 @@ set all_icons(U$ui_index)   file_merge
 set all_icons(_$ui_workdir) file_plain
 set all_icons(M$ui_workdir) file_mod
 set all_icons(D$ui_workdir) file_question
+set all_icons(U$ui_workdir) file_merge
 set all_icons(O$ui_workdir) file_plain
 
 set max_status_desc 0
@@ -2265,6 +2291,7 @@ foreach i {
 		{DO "Staged for removal, still present"}
 
 		{U_ "Requires merge resolution"}
+		{UU "Requires merge resolution"}
 		{UM "Requires merge resolution"}
 		{UD "Requires merge resolution"}
 	} {