Out project is using a modified version of Git Flow and A Successful Git Branching Model. What usually happens is our tasks are broken down in small pieces and then those are committed to a separate branch for that sub task. We create a pull request to merge those into a feature branch. Eventually the feature branch will be reintegrated into a development branch which contains multiple feature.
When reintegrating a feature branch into a development branch I want to separate non conflicting changes into the first commit (no fast forwards here) and then commit all the conflict resolutions in a separate commit. The purpose of this is so that I don't have to get someone to re-review all the trivial changes, they can just look at the one commit for the conflict resolutions and approve those.
When I try and do this in SourceTree the initial merge operation will stage everything. I then unstage the files with a conflict and commit what is left. The problem is that as soon as the files are unstaged the conflicts are marked as resolved. So to do the second commit I have to manually find the conflict markers and see what to do. It also makes it difficult to launch an external merge tool.
It's been a while since I have used Git from the command line but I thought the conflict was only resolved when it was added? Is there a way to achieve this in SourceTree?
