# how to do "git merge --abort"

5 messages from 2009-08-21 to 2009-08-22. Participants: bill lam, Jeff King, Thomas Rast.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20687

## bill lam, 2009-08-21 14:51

Subject: how to do "git merge --abort"
Message-ID: <20090821145157.GA6471@debian.b2j>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090821145157.GA6471%40debian.b2j

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How to abort a merge if it said there are conflicts but I do not want
to (or can not) resolve it for the moment.  I can not find the --abort
option as that for git-rebase.

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## Jeff King, 2009-08-21 15:19

Subject: Re: how to do "git merge --abort"
Message-ID: <20090821151926.GE6850@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090821151926.GE6850%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20090821145157.GA6471@debian.b2j>

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:51:57PM +0800, bill lam wrote:

> How to abort a merge if it said there are conflicts but I do not want
> to (or can not) resolve it for the moment.  I can not find the --abort
> option as that for git-rebase.

It is spelled "git reset --merge" (though --merge was introduced in
v1.6.1; prior to that, you had to use "git reset --hard").

I don't know if it is worth adding "git merge --abort" as syntactic
sugar.

-Peff

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## Thomas Rast, 2009-08-21 15:26

Subject: Re: how to do "git merge --abort"
Message-ID: <200908211726.21593.trast@student.ethz.ch>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200908211726.21593.trast%40student.ethz.ch
In-Reply-To: <20090821151926.GE6850@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:51:57PM +0800, bill lam wrote:
> 
> > How to abort a merge if it said there are conflicts but I do not want
> > to (or can not) resolve it for the moment.  I can not find the --abort
> > option as that for git-rebase.
> 
> It is spelled "git reset --merge" (though --merge was introduced in
> v1.6.1; prior to that, you had to use "git reset --hard").

Umm, no, you still have to use "git reset --hard".

"git reset --merge cmt" is a rough equivalent for

  git stash
  git reset --hard cmt
  git stash pop

and fills the case where you merged with (unrelated) unstaged changes,
and want to discard the merge while keeping the changes.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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## Jeff King, 2009-08-21 15:37

Subject: Re: how to do "git merge --abort"
Message-ID: <20090821153730.GA14456@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090821153730.GA14456%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <200908211726.21593.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> > It is spelled "git reset --merge" (though --merge was introduced in
> > v1.6.1; prior to that, you had to use "git reset --hard").
> 
> Umm, no, you still have to use "git reset --hard".

Ah, sorry, you are right. I have never actually used "--merge", but I
knew based on this thread:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102067

that the point was to carry dirty state across a reset. So I assumed you
could use it to reset a failed merge while leaving dirty state in files
unrelated to the merge. But it doesn't actually handle unmerged entries
at all.

Thanks for correcting me.

The downside, of course, of "git reset --hard" is that it kills off any
dirty state you may have wanted to keep.

-Peff

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## bill lam, 2009-08-22 01:56

Subject: Re: how to do "git merge --abort"
Message-ID: <20090822015649.GC3965@debian.b2j>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090822015649.GC3965%40debian.b2j
In-Reply-To: <200908211726.21593.trast@student.ethz.ch>

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Thanks to both of you. I'll try it when the next merge conflicts.

-- 
regards,
====================================================
GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

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