poll: when you have a merge conflict, how do you prefer to handle it?

merge conflict follow up: if you prefer to edit the weird text file by hand instead of using a dedicated merge conflict tool, why is that?

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Additionally to editing the weird file, I request that the weird file contain the before-both version ("conflictStle" set to "diff3").

A thing that bothered me in all (I think) merge tools I've tried is the conflation between the final state I want and something else (i.e. you do something that feels like editing one of the three "inputs" to make it look like the intended state; then the diffs between the various columns change their meaning as soon as I start actually resolving conflicts, so I need to keep track of the state I'm in in my head.

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