Re: Stupid git!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 09:49:43AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 21:51:14 +0000
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

[ .... ]

> > > If you're in the middle of a merge, it's a recipe for disaster.

> > :-).  OK, but the immediate problem is that _I_ didn't modify
> > file-notify-tests.el.  Somebody else did, and git put his changes into
> > my working directory and `git add'ed it.

> That's what happens when there are merge conflicts: Git suspends the
> merge in its middle.

Yes.  I had misunderstood "conflict".  I had thought it meant a merge
conflict in some file, whereas it just meant that other, possibly
unrelated, changes had taken place.

> > I don't have the log entry for this change.  So am I supposed to
> > just commit this, with my own log entry?

Acutally, I did have this log entry, but `git log' didn't display it.  It
needed `git log --all' to see it.

> Commit everything in one go, with "git commit", and give it a single
> log entry, something like "resolve merge conflicts".

Thanks, I've done this.

> > I don't really understand what "you are still merging" is supposed to
> > mean.  How do I get out of the "merging" state cleanly, without
> > commiting somebody else's changes?

> You _must_ commit.  A successful merge in Git always ends in a commit,
> and in this case you need to do it manually, because the automatic
> merge failed due to diverging.

OK.  I suppose there's a good reason for git aborting the merge rather
than completing it in the obvious manner, but I can't see it at the
moment.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).