Re: Git beginner - Need help understanding

From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 27, 2011, 06:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CA++fsGHPKhzfd7-KohOZ4WpYatx_-EW0bjq46zwswbu8TomHCg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA++fsGGEv=jS4YNEUCxTwZ3pZc7HbbmoPbDH+MamrqamxrsADA@mail.gmail.com>

The best way of understanding and also of asking questions, is if you can reproduce the steps of exactly what you want and don't understand by a sequence of commands like so:

     # First create a bare repository
     mkdir R
     cd R
     git init --bare .

     # Clone it into A
     git clone R A

     # Clone it into B
     git clone R B

     # Now start doing changes for A and B, pulling and pushing into R
     cd A
     echo "Change #1" > hello.txt
     git add hello.txt
     git commit -m 'Commit #1'
     git push origin master

     # Get into B
     cd ../B
     git pull
     echo "Change #2" >> hello.txt
     git commit -a -m 'Commit #2'
     git push

     # Get into A and pull the changes done by B
     cd ../A
     git pull

In this sequence, which fulfills the scenario that you described, there are no conflicts. So I suggest that you try to change the command sequence to illustrate what you don't understand and ask again.

 Regards,
 Dov

 On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 05:12, chirin <takonatto@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> I'm just beginning to use Git in my workplace, and (rather shamefully) have
> never heard of Git until now. While I pore over the stacks of documentations
> for beginners, could someone help me understand this issue I've been having?
>
> Every time a colleague updates a file, I would not be able to pull due to
> merge conflicts - even though I have never made any changes to the
> repository. I'd try  and then  again, but it would still give the same merge
> conflict. The only way I could pull currently is to do a git commit (even
> without changes), and then git pull.
>
> If this was SVN, I could simply resolve this with Update. What am I missing,
> and what should I be looking for?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
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