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Re: cg-update with local uncommitted changes

From
MHMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date
May 30, 2005, 19:27 UTC
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<1117481244.7072.209.camel@pegasus>
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<1117480796.7072.204.camel@pegasus>
Hi Petr,
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> > > when doing a cg-update and I have local uncommitted changes it fails
> > > with the "... needs update" message. From some previous posts on the
> > > mailing list I got the impression that it is possible to pull updates
> > > into the local repository with changed files. At the moment I am using
> > > the following sequence:
> > > 
> > > 	cg-diff > patch
> > > 	cg-cancel
> > > 	cg-update origin
> > > 	cat patch | patch -p1
> > > 	rm patch
> > > 
> > > The problem with this sequence is when I have added or removed files
> > > from my repository. This needs a lot of manual fixing.
> > > 
> > > With Bitkeeper it was possible to pull changes as long as they don't
> > > affect local uncommitted files.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on how to implement or if it exists on how to use it?
> > 
> > does it really fail? "... needs update" is not an error but something
> > between informative and warning message. (I've just committed a change
> > which silences it in this case.)
> > 
> > If the update did indeed fail, could you show the complete output,
> > please?
> 
> I used the latest cg-update on a test repository and now it works

let me be more specific. It only works in the fast forward case. If we actually must merge the trees, because I have local committed changes and not committed changes, I see this:

link 74966c42ddd874192c318acfc5f013e56c50606a link b27ddcd47e293557e0605b98b2a1e8429035cdc5 link 568ad7814e266f84b4ac28c15a0cadfb2fdb6c80 Tree change: f345b0a066572206aac4a4f9a57d746e213b6bff:74966c42ddd874192c318acfc5f013e56c50606a :100644 100644 f5deac7be59e7eeab8657fd9ae706fd6a57daed2 568ad7814e266f84b4ac28c15a0cadfb2fdb6c80 M README

Applying changes... usage.c: needs update cg-merge: merge blocked: local changes

I changed the README in test1 repository and committed it. Then I changed Makefile in test2 repository and committed it. After that I modified usage.c and left it uncommitted. Then I pulled in the README change from test1 repository.

Regards
Marcel
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  1. Marcel HoltmannMay 30, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisMay 30, 2005
  3. Marcel HoltmannMay 30, 2005
  4. Marcel HoltmannMay 30, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisJun 2, 2005
  6. Marcel HoltmannJun 2, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisJun 5, 2005
  8. Dan HolmsandMay 30, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisMay 31, 2005
  10. Dan HolmsandMay 31, 2005
  11. Zack BrownMay 30, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisMay 31, 2005

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