Subject: Re: merging confusion and question

From: Rich Pixley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:50:18 -0700

Thank you.

I think the work flow here needs some work, but reset --hard gets me 
running again.  That should probably be mentioned in the error message.

--rich

On 8/7/12 18:43 , Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Rich Pixley <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> I'm confused.
>>
>> What is the intended work flow here?  Ie, aside from trashing my
>> repository and starting over, what does one do to recover?
>>
>> rich@cobra> git clone /home/rich/repos/webos webos
>> Cloning into 'webos'...
>> done.
>> rich@cobra> cd webos
>> rich@cobra> git remote add central [email-masked]:openwebos/webos.git
>> rich@cobra> git co master
>> Already on 'master'
>> rich@cobra> git pull central master
>> X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
>> remote: Counting objects: 22, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19/19), done.
>> remote: Total 21 (delta 12), reused 11 (delta 2)
>> Unpacking objects: 100% (21/21), done.
>>  From github.com:openwebos/webos
>>   * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
>> warning: Failed to merge submodule meta-webos (not checked out)
>> Auto-merging meta-webos
>> CONFLICT (submodule): Merge conflict in meta-webos
>> Auto-merging README.md
>> Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
>> rich@cobra> git commit -a
> Why isn't there any "fix conflicts and then" step between this line
> and the friendly insn message on the previous line?
>
>> error: unable to index file meta-webos
>> fatal: updating files failed
>> rich@cobra> git add meta-webos
>> error: unable to index file meta-webos
>> fatal: updating files failed
>> rich@cobra> git rm meta-webos
>> meta-webos: needs merge
>> rm 'meta-webos'
>> fatal: git rm: 'meta-webos': Is a directory
>> rich@cobra> git merge meta-webos
>> error: 'merge' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
>> hint: Fix them up in the work tree,
>> hint: and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as
>> hint: appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit,
>> hint: or use 'git commit -a'.
>> fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.
> If you are not interested in mucking with meta-webos with this
> merge, you would resolve meta-webos by taking either your (i.e. the
> one that came from /home/rich/repos/webos) version or their
> (i.e. the one that came from openwebos/webos.git) version.  Go back
> to the state before "git pull central master" with "reset --hard",
> init and update webos submodule, try the "pull" again and then "git
> add webos" to resolve to your version, perhaps?