Hi,
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From: Thomas Rast <trast <at> student.ethz.ch> Subject: Re: strange temporary pull-errors Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git Date: 2008-08-23 08:44:45 GMT (2 days, 5 hours and 14 minutes ago) Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> > > git pull
[...]
> error: Entry 'Buildsystem/Configuration/Html/local_html.mak' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
[...]
> > git status
[...]
> nothing to commit (working directory clean) > > git pull
[succeeds]
> There is nothing special going out, the simple pull should succeed, but > I have to try several times; don't know whether the "git status" is > instrumental here or not --- will try the next time.
Saying 'git status' refreshes the index. If you have touched (updated mtime) local_html.mak without making any changes, 'git merge' just compared the mtime and considered the file changed. But 'git status' actually compares the contents and finds it has not been changed. I don't know whether 1.6 (most likely builtin-merge) changed behaviour in this respect, maybe you could try with an older version too.
There are other cases where you need a refresh, for example if you have made a copy of a git-tracked directory with 'cp -r'.
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More precisely:
1) First, repository B pulls from A. 2) Then I change B. 3) Then repository A wants to pull from B. There the error occurs --- the files changed in B are claimed not to be up-to-date in A! Obviously!
This looks like a clear git-bug to me: And with 1.5.6.5 this doesn't happen (the second pull just goes through).
It must be something different than you are describing, since at step 3 repository A is still unchanged, and the error (like with local_html.mak above) occurs with a file which just should be updated. Though, after executing "git status", the pull becomes enabled, so I must have something to do with the index.
Oliver
P.S. I wonder how one is supposed to reply to an e-mail one (only) finds in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/ ? Above I just copy-and-pasted it from the web-page, but this is rather tedious?
