Subject: Re: Expected Behavior?

From: Jon Loeliger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:58:58 -0600

<Young Frankenstein> Froe-derick wrote: </Young Frankenstein>

> Jon: You could try to this merge with the recursive merge strategy
> (git merge -s recursive 'merge message' master dev) If you do, you
> _should_ get something like:
> 
>     CONFLICT (add/add): File file3 added non-identically in both
>     branches. Adding as file3_master and file3_dev instead.

Hmmm. That didn't go too well. Concisely:

    % git merge -s recursive "Grab dev stuff" master dev
    Trying really trivial in-index merge...
    fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
    Nope.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/git-merge-recursive", line 8, in ?
	from gitMergeCommon import *
    ImportError: No module named gitMergeCommon
    Automatic merge failed/prevented; fix up by hand

Full details below.

> You will then end up with file3_master and file3_dev in your working
> tree, which corresponds to file3 in the master branch and file3 in the
> dev branch, respectively.

That'd be cool, because the first thing I tend to want to do
after a failed file merge is look at clear versions of both files.
Gives me a global sense of where the file needs to go...  You know.

jdl

[ tail end of the make install output ]

install -d -m755 '/usr/share/git-core/templates/'
(cd blt && tar cf - .) | \
(cd '/usr/share/git-core/templates/' && tar xf -)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/git-core/templates'
install -d -m755 '/usr/share/git-core/python'
install gitMergeCommon.py '/usr/share/git-core/python'

% git merge -s recursive "Grab dev stuff" master dev
Trying really trivial in-index merge...
fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
Nope.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/git-merge-recursive", line 8, in ?
    from gitMergeCommon import *
ImportError: No module named gitMergeCommon
Automatic merge failed/prevented; fix up by hand

% git -v
git version 0.99.9.GIT
% cat /usr/src/git-core/.git/HEAD
f8d294f0a44c4305a9f3a1c70beb6a1c7583f287

% ll /usr/share/git-core/python/
total 16
4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov  8 20:17 .
4 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Sep 14 19:47 ..
8 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 6879 Nov  8 20:17 gitMergeCommon.py

% python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, May  4 2005, 08:51:39)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)] on linux2