[Buildroot] OT: git workflow question

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

I don't seem to "get" git when it comes to working with
buildroot.

 1) I cloned the repository about two weeks ago

 2) I made a bunch of small edits to docs/buildroot.html and
    commited them locally.

 3) I submitted the changes using git format-patch

 4) The patches were merged to the "master" repository

 5) Then when I did a "git pull" to update my repository, it
    failed because of conflicts in docs/buildroot.html

Since I had only changed the one file (and those changes had
been merged into the master repository) I didn't bother trying
to resolve the conflict -- I just blew away my repository and
did a 'clone'.

Here's my question: why was there a conflict?

Is this how git is supposed to work?

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