Re: git pull (Your local changes to ... would be overwritten by merge)

From: Daniel Blendea <bdaniel7@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinWS0zWhh0d-yrb7eWMEeQenoAF8tA6-l9BRP_q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4oh1zzfs.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Windows 7, did not change anything related to crlf.

I solved the problem with

git fetch --all git reset --hard origin/master

--- Daniel

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 14:11, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>
>> Daniel Blendea venit, vidit, dixit 17.06.2010 11:35:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A while ago I have cloned on my computer a git repo.
>>> Since then, the developers have modified several files in the repo.
>>> Now I want to update my copy with the latest changes.
>>>
>>> I do 'git pull' but I get 'Your local changes to .... would be
>>> overwritten by merge.  Aborting.'
>>> I didn't modified any local file. I tried using 'git stash save' but no luck.
>
> Which OS? Do you have any crlf conversion enabled? Any filter set in
> .gitattributes?
>
>> Most likely the remote side did a non-forward push and brought you in
>> that situation.
>
> A non-fast forward push would force a non-fast forward pull,
> possibly/probably with conflicts, but wouldn't trigger this message,
> which is generated before the merge is actually started.
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
>