Re: Issues running gitmerge

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> I noticed that it's been about a week since we last ran gitmerge, and
> so I attempted it since I have a couple of changes to the Eshell
> manual on the release branch that I want to merge into
> master. However, running gitmerge fails, I think due to our pre-commit
> hook complaining. The failing files are:
>
>   ChangeLog.android
>     The hook rejects files with ChangeLog in the name, but reports the
>     wrong error due to a (probable) bug in the hook.

ChangeLog.android should be kept.  The hook should be fixed.

>   java/INSTALL
>     Whitespace "issues" (which are probably non-issues since these are
>     part of in-line diffs).
>
>   java/README
>     Extraneous newline at the end.

The hook must be taught to ignore these files.

>   java/res/drawable/emacs_background.xml:30
>     Trailing whitespace (probably a real issue)
>
> The last two are easy enough to fix, but I'm not sure what to do about
> the others. Can we tell Git to ignore these problems? Should we fix
> them somehow? I'm no expert on the gitmerge process, so maybe I'm just
> missing something obvious.

I asked this question a week ago, but none of the Git experts who
frequent this list replied.

I will fix emacs_background.xml.