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Re: LCA2006 Git/Cogito tutorial

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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Oct 23, 2005, 15:33 UTC
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<200510231533.j9NFXhOv019272@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>
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<martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Martin Langhoff (CatalystIT) <martin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
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> If you combine the coolness of git-merge.sh with the fact that
> cg-merge right now is buggy[*]... I'm starting to rely on doing
> cg-fetch and running git-merge.sh by hand.
> 
> * I just merged your latest fixes, knowing that they'd conflict on
> * cg-fetch, but the merge didn't say a thing a bout cg-fetch, and only
> * complained like this:
> 
>     MERGE ERROR: : Not handling case  ->  ->
> 
> But there were no conflicts at all in the tree! It seems to be that
> it's dropping the upstream changes it doesn't like.

It happens when a new file with the same name appears in both parents. For example, we both see the need for a README file, and then I pull from you and try to merge into my version.

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  1. Horst von BrandOct 23, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisOct 23, 2005
  3. Martin LanghoffOct 24, 2005

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