I am looking for a way to save during a 3-way merge session and continue merging those files at a later point in time.
I have to merge very long textfiles and sometimes it is necessary to continue the next day.
So far I have found out that the output file is generated anew each time I open the session. I guess the only way to pause and continue a merge is to write down on which line in each file I stopped merging, save my output file and the next time I continue I have to copy all the lines in my saved output file to the newly merged file in BC. Then I have to check if everything worked out, setting up the views of the files to merge around the lines I written down and continue.
This process seems so odd to me. Maybe I don't know what to search for but I would expect to be able to save the current state of my merge within the session, so the next time I open it I am directly placed on the line from which to continue (the last solved conflict or a line I marked to continue from).
I searched the forum using these terms:
save during a merge
save a merge
pause a merge
continue a merge
But nothing useful turned up.
Does nobody else have this problem?
Does this post turn out to be a feature request?
I have to merge very long textfiles and sometimes it is necessary to continue the next day.
So far I have found out that the output file is generated anew each time I open the session. I guess the only way to pause and continue a merge is to write down on which line in each file I stopped merging, save my output file and the next time I continue I have to copy all the lines in my saved output file to the newly merged file in BC. Then I have to check if everything worked out, setting up the views of the files to merge around the lines I written down and continue.
This process seems so odd to me. Maybe I don't know what to search for but I would expect to be able to save the current state of my merge within the session, so the next time I open it I am directly placed on the line from which to continue (the last solved conflict or a line I marked to continue from).
I searched the forum using these terms:
save during a merge
save a merge
pause a merge
continue a merge
But nothing useful turned up.
Does nobody else have this problem?
Does this post turn out to be a feature request?
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