Re: fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 28, 2006, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd5f2drr8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200604280430.33100.len.brown@intel.com>

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

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> I'm trying to  use git-am to apply a patch series in a mailbox.
>
> The first patch has a conflict, which I edit to fix, and and then invoke
> git am --3way --interactive --signoff --utf8 --resolved
>
> but it bails out with this:
>
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (4829f067a3e7acfbeed8b230caac00b1ed4b8554)
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (528d198c28512af1627cce481575f37a599c0fe8)
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (db3bef1a3e51801128e7553f3e546c8272cc9ee1)
> fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree
>
> I've tried various incantations of git reset on the theory that there is some 
> old state hanging around someplace, but have not been able to check in this 
> file.
>
> clues?

Please say "--resolved" after you have actually resolved them, eh, meaning, (1) edit the working tree file into a desired shape, and (2) git-update-index drivers/acpi/thermal.c.

I've considered making --resolved to do update-index for all paths that are unmerged in the index, but that risks going forward by mistake when you still have other paths to resolve, so...