Re: 'git pull' fails with 'not uptodate' message despite 'git reset --hard'

From: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2009, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20090729225432.GG22281@clouds>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130907291344u3c2b7df8ld848a79ec38197a6@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:44:32PM +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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> You can always try the thermonuclear option:
> 
>    mv .git/index .git/index.bak
>    git reset HEAD    # note, don't use --hard here
>    git status   # should show only files you have *really* changed
> 
> Of course, if this fixes it than it's *definitely* a bug somewhere.

That still doesn't fix the problem.  I guess the index is not to blame.

$ mv .git/index .git/index.bak
$ git reset HEAD
$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 484 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
$ git pull origin tags/v2.6.31-rc4
From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
 * tag               v2.6.31-rc4 -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating 6847e15..4be3bd7
error: Entry 'CREDITS' not uptodate. Cannot merge.

Incidentally:

$ diff .git/index.bak .git/index Binary files .git/index.bak and .git/index differ

I don't know what .git/index contains so I don't know if that's surprising or not.

Cheers, Jody

> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Avery