From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, gscrivano@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Stupid git!
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:49:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150914104914.GB3208@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83613ebypk.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli.
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 09:49:43AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:51:14 +0000
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gscrivano@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
[ .... ]
> > > If you're in the middle of a merge, it's a recipe for disaster.
> > :-). OK, but the immediate problem is that _I_ didn't modify
> > file-notify-tests.el. Somebody else did, and git put his changes into
> > my working directory and `git add'ed it.
> That's what happens when there are merge conflicts: Git suspends the
> merge in its middle.
Yes. I had misunderstood "conflict". I had thought it meant a merge
conflict in some file, whereas it just meant that other, possibly
unrelated, changes had taken place.
> > I don't have the log entry for this change. So am I supposed to
> > just commit this, with my own log entry?
Acutally, I did have this log entry, but `git log' didn't display it. It
needed `git log --all' to see it.
> Commit everything in one go, with "git commit", and give it a single
> log entry, something like "resolve merge conflicts".
Thanks, I've done this.
> > I don't really understand what "you are still merging" is supposed to
> > mean. How do I get out of the "merging" state cleanly, without
> > commiting somebody else's changes?
> You _must_ commit. A successful merge in Git always ends in a commit,
> and in this case you need to do it manually, because the automatic
> merge failed due to diverging.
OK. I suppose there's a good reason for git aborting the merge rather
than completing it in the obvious manner, but I can't see it at the
moment.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-14 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-12 10:15 Stupid git! Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 10:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 10:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-12 12:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 12:34 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-12 12:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 20:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-14 10:09 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-12 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-12 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-12 10:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-12 12:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 11:45 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2015-09-12 13:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 14:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-12 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-12 20:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-12 20:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-12 21:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-13 6:22 ` Sven Axelsson
2015-09-14 10:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-14 10:29 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 12:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 12:47 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 13:44 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-13 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 10:49 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-09-15 0:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-13 20:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-14 3:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-14 13:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-14 11:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-14 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 13:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-14 17:05 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-14 10:37 ` Steinar Bang
2015-09-13 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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