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How to resolve conflict: Moved away vs. created new file with same name

Subject: How to resolve conflict: Moved away vs. created new file with same name

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4 messages between Jan 19, 2010 and Jan 19, 2010.

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Johannes Schneider· Jan 19, 2010, 11:10 UTC · lore

Hi,

I had the following merge problem that I could not solve.

TopicA:

created a directory "client" containing a pom.xml and several source files.

TopicB:

created a directory "client" containing a pom.xml (different file than the one in TopicA). Created several subdirectories (client1, client2).

You get the idea? I introduce several different clients and want them to be stored within one directory. But I did not have this idea when I have started TopicA.

So I am trying to mimic the change in TopicA:

cd client mkdir client3 mv pom.xml client3 mv src client3 ...commit...

Okay, so far so good. Now I try to merge TopicA and TopicB which fails. Of course Git doesn't understand that "client/pom.xml" in TopicA and TopicB are not related. I want to end with to the file from TopicA ending in "client/client3/pom.xml" and the file from TopicB in "client/pom.xml".

I don't blame Git for not knowing what I want. I just wanna ask how I should tell Git what I want? Any hints?

Thanks,

Johannes

Johannes Sixt· Jan 19, 2010, 11:55 UTC · re: Johannes Schneider · lore

Re: How to resolve conflict: Moved away vs. created new file with same name

Johannes Schneider schrieb:

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> TopicA:
> 
> created a directory "client" containing a pom.xml and several source files.
> 
> 
> TopicB:
> 
> created a directory "client" containing a pom.xml (different file than
> the one in TopicA).
> Created several subdirectories (client1, client2).
> 
> ...
> So I am trying to mimic the change in TopicA:
> 
> cd client
> mkdir client3
> mv pom.xml client3
> mv src client3
> ...commit...

Did you do this during the merge? If not, go back to TopicA and redo it; then you avoid the conflict during the merge.

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> Okay, so far so good. Now I try to merge TopicA and TopicB which fails.
> Of course Git doesn't understand that "client/pom.xml" in TopicA and
> TopicB are not related.
> I want to end with to the file from TopicA ending in
> "client/client3/pom.xml" and the file from TopicB in "client/pom.xml".

During the merge without the fixup suggested above:

git rm -f client/client3/pom.xml git checkout TopicA -- client/pom.xml git mv client/pom.xml client/client3/pom.xml git checkout TopicB -- client/pom.xml

but it leaves you with an ugly history, and it would be far better to fix up TopicA before the merge.

-- Hannes

Johannes Sixt· Jan 19, 2010, 14:55 UTC · lore

Re: How to resolve conflict: Moved away vs. created new file with same name

Please keep the discussion on the list. I'm not your personal support dude.

Johannes Schneider schrieb:

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> On 01/19/2010 12:55 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>> So I am trying to mimic the change in TopicA:
>>>
>>> cd client
>>> mkdir client3
>>> mv pom.xml client3
>>> mv src client3
>>> ...commit...
>>
>> Did you do this during the merge? If not, go back to TopicA and redo it;
>> then you avoid the conflict during the merge.
> 
> Yes, I have done this in TopicA *before* the merge. I knew that there
> will be conflicting directories and tried to clean that up before.
> 
>> During the merge without the fixup suggested above:
>>
>> git rm -f client/client3/pom.xml
>> git checkout TopicA -- client/pom.xml
>> git mv client/pom.xml client/client3/pom.xml
>> git checkout TopicB -- client/pom.xml
>>
>> but it leaves you with an ugly history, and it would be far better to fix
>> up TopicA before the merge.
> 
> Yep. I prefer a clean history ;-). So do you know how to solve that
> issue with a cleaned up TopicA branch?

I don't see an issue if you have cleaned up TopicA. Where is it? Did you really do what you said you did?

-- Hannes

Johannes Schneider· Jan 19, 2010, 16:46 UTC · re: Johannes Sixt · lore

Re: How to resolve conflict: Moved away vs. created new file with same name

On 01/19/2010 03:55 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Please keep the discussion on the list. I'm not your personal support dude.

Sorry, unintentional. TB3 has a menu entry called "reply to list" that obviously does not what I expected from...

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>
> Johannes Schneider schrieb:
>> On 01/19/2010 12:55 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>>> So I am trying to mimic the change in TopicA:
>>>>
>>>> cd client
>>>> mkdir client3
>>>> mv pom.xml client3
>>>> mv src client3
>>>> ...commit...
>>>
>>> Did you do this during the merge? If not, go back to TopicA and redo it;
>>> then you avoid the conflict during the merge.
>>
>> Yes, I have done this in TopicA *before* the merge. I knew that there
>> will be conflicting directories and tried to clean that up before.
>>
>>> During the merge without the fixup suggested above:
>>>
>>> git rm -f client/client3/pom.xml
>>> git checkout TopicA -- client/pom.xml
>>> git mv client/pom.xml client/client3/pom.xml
>>> git checkout TopicB -- client/pom.xml
>>>
>>> but it leaves you with an ugly history, and it would be far better to fix
>>> up TopicA before the merge.
>>
>> Yep. I prefer a clean history ;-). So do you know how to solve that
>> issue with a cleaned up TopicA branch?
>
> I don't see an issue if you have cleaned up TopicA. Where is it? Did you
> really do what you said you did?
>
> -- Hannes
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