Today I found out that there is a great bzr plugin, called extmerge. Here is a small howto install and use it:
mkdir ~/.bazaar/plugins bzr get http://erik.bagfors.nu/bzr-plugins/extmerge/ ~/.bazaar/plugins/extmerge sudo apt-get install xxdiff
now the next time you get conflicts during merge, you can use the command bzr extmerge $conflicting_file, and xxdiff will present you THIS, OTHER, and BASE. You select each hunk you want to use in the merged file, then choose 'Save as merged' in the menu. Done.
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