Subject: Re: [BUG] ProgramError: merge ... .merge_file_4CPoEQ: No such file

From: Jon Loeliger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:47:50 -0600

> It seems that changes has been committed to
> Documentation/git-read-tree.txt in both the jdl branch and in
> origin.

Yes.

> This shouldn't cause any problems but git-merge-recursive
> (which currently is the default merge strategy) uses merge(1) to do
> the file-level merging and it seems like merge(1) can't be found on
> your system.
> 
> Do you have merge(1) installed? More appropriately, is merge in your
> path? If it isn't installed it can usually be found in the rcs package
> in your distribution.

Oh wow.  Exactly correct.

Here's Jon building up the new Ubuntu box, and thinking, "I'll
be using git, so I don't need to install RCS or CVS anymore." :-)

After installing RCS, here's what we get:

    jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git reset --hard jdl
    jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull . origin
    Trying really trivial in-index merge...
    fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
    Nope.
    Merging HEAD with be61db922a230ae2638c27c071ee4b8c98f01f72
    Merging:
    4baf91676c2462796137e93917c75f2e14ebb877 Added documentation for few missing options.
    be61db922a230ae2638c27c071ee4b8c98f01f72 git-merge-one-file: resurrect leading path creation.
    found 1 common ancestor(s):
    23c99d84601316c1e51ebc1f0b9bec5cddd011fb git-mv to work with Perl 5.6
    Auto-merging Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
    CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in Documentation/git-read-tree.txt

    Automatic merge failed/prevented; fix up by hand

Thanks!
jdl