Re: Resolving conflicts

[Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> No, kdiff3 probably doesn't have the same semantics, so better get the 
>> "real" merge. It's almost certainly in the rcs package, so "emerge rcs" 
>> should do it.
> 
> ..and just to be safe, remove the symlink first, so that you don't end up 
> overwriting the "kdiff3" binary by mistake when you install the real 
> "merge". Not that I think emerge is quite that stupid a package manager, 
> but anyway..
> 
> 		Linus
> 

Ubuntu is debian based and I use Synaptic GUI, a front end to apt-get. My earlier problem
was I couldn't find which package "merge" was in. But now I just figured it out by going
to debian.org and using "Search the contents of packages" for "merge". Turns out "merge"
is in devel/rcs which of course the whole world knows, unless your a neophyte like me:)

Any way after getting the real merge, I reverted the first pull and re-did it and all was well:

wink@winkc2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-checkout -f
wink@winkc2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-status
# On branch refs/heads/ace
nothing to commit
wink@winkc2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-pull . master
Trying really trivial in-index merge...
fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
Nope.
Merging HEAD with 0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704
Merging:
d7083db038fb98266e331a7f96198ec35a12367a A partial fix BUG 061124 (crashing when 1ms interrrupts).
0215ffb08ce99e2bb59eca114a99499a4d06e704 Linux 2.6.19
found 1 common ancestor(s):
1abbfb412b1610ec3a7ec0164108cee01191d9f5 [PATCH] x86_64: fix bad page state in process 'swapper'
Auto-merging kernel/fork.c
Auto-merging kernel/spinlock.c

Merge made by recursive.
  Documentation/rtc.txt                         |  463 ++++++++++++++++---------
  Makefile                                      |    2
  arch/arm/configs/assabet_defconfig            |    1
  arch/arm/configs/cerfcube_defconfig           |    1
  arch/arm/configs/corgi_defconfig              |    1
......
  sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c              |    1
  sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                 |    2
  sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c                |   14 -
  sound/usb/usbaudio.c                          |    3
  usr/Makefile                                  |    2
  92 files changed, 888 insertions(+), 371 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/topology.c
  create mode 100644 arch/um/os-Linux/execvp.c
  create mode 100644 include/asm-arm/mach/udc_pxa2xx.h



Thank you very much,

Wink