Re: Q. regarding subtree merge

From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2008, 12:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160804180559y70c72449g8f0beff63c229c7b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <60b759020804180518k2fc1957bk60a5d7cdac8c3991@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2008/4/18, Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>:
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>  >  $ git reset --soft libfoo/current-work
>  >
>
>  OK. Thanks. It worked without the merge.
>  I did another test where the 'super-prj' was not empty, this time with
>  'git merge -s...' and
>  that worked as well. So:
>  If you have an empty super-prj    -> drop the merge

+ git reset --soft commit

If not the next "git merge -s subtree" will fail.

>  If you have a non-empty super-prj -> do the merge
>
>  But I really don't understand (yet...) why it is as it is...

Because you cannot merge an empty branch with another branch. Maybe "git merge -s ours" should fail in this case, because it does not make sense to merge an empty branch with the "ours" strategy.

Santi