Re: unexpected git-cherry-pick conflict

From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Jun 13, 2007, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20070613134336.13661.qmail@c61f4fed932273.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706131354250.4059@racer.site>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:58:51PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> >  $ git checkout master
> >  Switched to branch "master"
> >  $ git cherry-pick 8ddc4d5
> >  CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name link in
> >  8ddc4d5... file. Added link as link~HEAD
> 
> Here you _still_ have the file in master. So that conflict is really 
> expected, since a cherry-pick will only do a three-way merge.

git-cherry-pick(1) states
 Given one existing commit, apply the change the patch introduces, and
 record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to
 be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).

The patch introduced by the commit that's cherry-pick'ed has nothing to do with the link or new directory, it just changes 'file'

 $ git show 8ddc4d5
 commit 8ddc4d59444a362261e10a3b22324818f5dd2fa7
 Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
 Date:   Wed Jun 13 09:10:30 2007 +0000
 
     file
 
 diff --git a/file b/file
 index 257cc56..3bd1f0e 100644
 --- a/file
 +++ b/file
 @@ -1 +1,2 @@
  foo
 +bar
 $

The patch applies to master just fine.  Where's my thinking wrong?

Thanks, Gerrit.