Have git rerere automatically mark files as resolved?

Question

I'm using git rerere, and it is useful, but there is one problem: When it automatically resolves a file, it does not mark it as resolved (eg with git add). So if I run 'git mergetool', it opens up the file as if it still has all the conflicts in it.

So far, I've made a small shell script which I can call, which scans all files marked as conflicted for conflict markers (eg >>>>>>>), and calls git-add on them if they have none.

Is there a better way of doing this? Some flag to git rerere I missed?

Answer 1

Maybe a git config setting can help:

rerere.autoupdate

When set to true, git-rerere updates the index with the resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using previously recorded resolution.
Defaults to false.

Note: since Git1.7.0,

"git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way to countermand it from the command line;
--no-rerere-autoupdate option given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this.