From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:32:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase: unexpected conflict
Message-ID: <7vr6t17ohb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070204190519.GB29029@mellanox.co.il>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

> When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue".
> If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip".
> To restore the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort".
> --------------------------
>
> Sure enough, there are conflicts in drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig:
>
> <<<<<<< HEAD:drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
> config MTD_NAND_CAFE
>        tristate "NAND support for OLPC CAFÉ chip"
>        depends on PCI
>        help
>          Use NAND flash attached to the CAFÉ chip designed for the $100
>          laptop.
> =======
> config MTD_NAND_AT91
>         bool "Support for NAND Flash / SmartMedia on AT91"
>         depends on MTD_NAND && ARCH_AT91
>         help
>           Enables support for NAND Flash / Smart Media Card interface
>           on Atmel AT91 processors.
>>>>>>>> [MTD] NAND: AT91 NAND driver:drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
>
> But I don't really understand where do the conflicts come from:
> The patch I skipped (9b3bfe5696aa417d38ce903eb345a03d65743dd2)
> only touched the file drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c,
> so why can't rebase replay all of the changes?

That is because David Woodhouse has an evil merge at
c45aa055c32b488fc3fd73c760df372b09acf69a.

Running "git show" on that commit would tell you the story.