# fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree

2 messages from 2006-04-28 to 2006-04-28. Participants: Len Brown, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3982

## Len Brown, 2006-04-28 08:30

Subject: fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree
Message-ID: <200604280430.33100.len.brown@intel.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200604280430.33100.len.brown%40intel.com

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I'm trying to  use git-am to apply a patch series in a mailbox.

The first patch has a conflict, which I edit to fix, and and then invoke
git am --3way --interactive --signoff --utf8 --resolved

but it bails out with this:

drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (4829f067a3e7acfbeed8b230caac00b1ed4b8554)
drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (528d198c28512af1627cce481575f37a599c0fe8)
drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (db3bef1a3e51801128e7553f3e546c8272cc9ee1)
fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree

I've tried various incantations of git reset on the theory that there is some 
old state hanging around someplace, but have not been able to check in this 
file.

clues?

thanks,
-Len

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## Junio C Hamano, 2006-04-28 08:32

Subject: Re: fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree
Message-ID: <7vd5f2drr8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd5f2drr8.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <200604280430.33100.len.brown@intel.com>

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Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> writes:

> I'm trying to  use git-am to apply a patch series in a mailbox.
>
> The first patch has a conflict, which I edit to fix, and and then invoke
> git am --3way --interactive --signoff --utf8 --resolved
>
> but it bails out with this:
>
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (4829f067a3e7acfbeed8b230caac00b1ed4b8554)
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (528d198c28512af1627cce481575f37a599c0fe8)
> drivers/acpi/thermal.c: unmerged (db3bef1a3e51801128e7553f3e546c8272cc9ee1)
> fatal: git-write-tree: not able to write tree
>
> I've tried various incantations of git reset on the theory that there is some 
> old state hanging around someplace, but have not been able to check in this 
> file.
>
> clues?

Please say "--resolved" after you have actually resolved them,
eh, meaning, (1) edit the working tree file into a desired
shape, and (2) git-update-index drivers/acpi/thermal.c.

I've considered making --resolved to do update-index for all
paths that are unmerged in the index, but that risks going
forward by mistake when you still have other paths to resolve,
so...

```