Re: how do I resolve this merge manually + mergetool bug

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 06:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbpssmjm9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0902232204y7a1e9a91x6cbf751319664734@mail.gmail.com>

Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> writes:

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> #       unmerged:   profiles/package.mask
>
> on the remote package.mask is a file locally it is a directory.
> ...
> git rm :3:profiles/package.mask
> fatal: pathspec ':3:profiles/package.mask' did not match any files

The answer most likely is this but don't do this just yet:

    $ git rm profiles/package.mask

With this, you are saying "For the path profiles/package.mask, the correct resolution is not to have it". There is no room for the stage number to get into the picture when you are talking about the final result.

But I am suspecting that this is because you moved it to somewhere (perhaps to profiles/package.mask/frotz) while the remote side kept it intact or modified it in place. If that is the case, and if the remote side made an in-place change, you would want to port the change over to the path you moved the contents to before you actually remove it, so before running the above "git rm", I would do something like.

    $ git cat-file blob :1:profiles/package.mask >original
    $ git cat-file blob :3:profiles/package.mask >theirs
    $ git cat-file blob profiles/package.mask/frotz >mine
    $ git merge-file mine original theirs
    $ diff -u profiles/package.mask/frotz mine ;# eyeball the merge result
    $ cat mine >profiles/package.mask/frotz

and then finally conclude the merge with:

    $ git rm profiles/package.mask
    $ git add profiles/package.mask/frotz

But if the remote side did not change anything (i.e. original == theirs), then you do not have to do the file-level merge to update the contents you moved to a different path.