• [$] Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Fri Oct 31 19:30:09 2025
    [$] Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git

    Date:
    Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:30:00 +0000

    Description:
    The idea of automatic syntax-aware merging in version-control systems goes back to 2005 or earlier , but initial implementations were
    often language-specific and slow. Mergiraf is a merge-conflict resolver that uses a generic algorithm plus a
    small amount of language-specific knowledge
    to solve conflicts that Git's default strategy cannot.
    The project's contributors have been working on the
    tool for just under a year, but it already supports 33 languages , including C,
    Python, Rust, and even SystemVerilog .

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1042355/


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