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Re: Question about pre-merge and git merge octopus strategy

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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
May 10, 2022, 07:07 UTC
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On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 7:44 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> 于2022年5月7日周六 12:09写道:
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:24 AM Christian Couder
> > <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:15 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I think it's not useful for git merge-octopus, because if we meet a
> > > > merge conflict, we can't find
> > > > MERGE_HEAD at all! How can we abort this conflict merge?
> >
> > MERGE_HEAD doesn't have anything to do with aborting the conflict
> > resolution step.  When you need to abort, the thing you want to go
> > back to is HEAD (which represents the commit you had checked out and
> > were merging the other stuff into), not MERGE_HEAD (which represents
> > the branch or branches you were merging into HEAD).
> >
>
> Thanks for clarifying. As I reply to Christian, when I just use "git
> merge A B C" happily,
> and there is a conflict, so I try "git merge --abort" as usual, but it
> can not work... git tell me:
>
> fatal: There is no merge to abort (MERGE_HEAD missing).

Sounds like a bug to me; .git/MERGE_HEAD should be written. That file is created for me when I set up a simple octopus merge that has conflicts. Do you have a set of steps others can use to reproduce the problem you are seeing?

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  1. ZheNing HuMay 6, 2022
  2. Christian CouderMay 6, 2022
  3. Elijah NewrenMay 7, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2022
  5. ZheNing HuMay 8, 2022
  6. Elijah NewrenMay 10, 2022
  7. ZheNing HuMay 11, 2022
  8. Elijah NewrenMay 12, 2022
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 12, 2022
  10. Elijah NewrenMay 13, 2022
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2022
  12. ZheNing HuMay 19, 2022
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  14. ZheNing HuMay 8, 2022
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