Show conflict diff part of a merge

Question

I need to present to the team what changes I've made during conflict resolution of a merge.

I know this is kind of hard, but I certainly believe it is possible somehow. I've tried already git show -m and git show -c.

Answer 1

Look at the hash (or tag) of the merge commit (the commit that has multiple parents) and do:

git diff hash hash^1 hash^2

It will output a 3 way-diff of the changes.

hash^ (or hash^1) references the first parent commit of hash
hash^2 references the second parent commit of hash

Answer 2

If you use the standard gitk tool, and click on a merge commit, the lower left pane shows the conflict resolutions.

Answer 3

Just use

git diff ORIG_HEAD MERGE_HEAD(or FETCH_HEAD)

MERGE_HEAD holds for your local merged files, ORIG_HEAD is the commit possible conflicting that you want to merge.

FETCH_HEAD is the hash for the repo you fetch changes before merging.

As said above, PULL only does fetch (in the remote repo, possible origin) and a Merge

In case of doubt see your .git folder to see the files where hashes are being stored.