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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In git, how does one revert a single file with merge conflicts in it?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:05:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mw4wguyh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150202120003.GA3673@acm.acm>

> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 12:00:03 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> On doing
>    $ git cherry-pick -xe <Commit Id>
> , I get a half error message: "error: could not apply f3f7acc... ...".
> Further investigation reveals that the cause is conflicts in a ChangeLog
> file.  No surprises there.

I suggest that you install the git-merge-changelog program and
configure it as the merge driver for ChangeLog files.  Then the
probability of such conflicts will be very close to zero.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-02 12:00 In git, how does one revert a single file with merge conflicts in it? Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-02 13:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-02 19:29   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-03  9:04     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-03  9:26       ` David Kastrup
2015-02-03 22:36     ` Steinar Bang
2015-02-02 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-02-02 19:32   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-02-02 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-02 19:37   ` Alan Mackenzie

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