When applying a patch is there any way to resolve conflicts?

Question

I am on windows.

For various reasons we have multiple git instances of different svn branches.

Many times I want to fix an issue in repository A, generate

Answer 1

If you are frequently running into the same conflict set when applying patches, rebasing or merging then you can use git rerere (reuse recorded resolution) function. This allows you to pre-define how conflicts should be resolved based on how you resolved them in the past. See http://git-scm.com/blog/2010/03/08/rerere.html for details of how this works.