Automatic merge failed, fix up by hand

2005-08-23 Thread Len Brown
I'm having trouble using git for merging kernel trees. git seems to manufacture conflicts in files that I never touched, and on some files it completely throws up its arms, see "Not handling case" below. Not clear how I got into this state -- probably something to do with adding commits on branch

Re: Automatic merge failed, fix up by hand

2005-08-23 Thread Len Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 18:06 -0400, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The merge issue below is reproduced in a "git clone -l" copy > > with no plain files present. > > Meaning you did not have any file in the work

Re: Automatic merge failed, fix up by hand

2005-08-23 Thread Len Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:58 -0400, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I could get to 81065e2f415af6... commit (Linus tip at this > >> moment), so if you can tell me where to snarf the other commit > >> (702c7e76) that w

Re: Automatic merge failed, fix up by hand

2005-08-23 Thread Len Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:07 -0400, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Probably the ideal way would be to give merge-base an option to > > spit out all the candidates, and have the script try to see > > which ones yield the least number of non-trivial merges. >