Re: Bad merging with stgit or git

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>]

Em Ter, 2006-03-21 às 14:39 -0500, J. Bruce Fields escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:34:13PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > It shouldn't have any conflicts here for Linus, since those patches came
> > from his tree.
> 
> What do you mean by "those patches came from his tree"?  If you're
> actually cherry-picking patches from his tree and applying them to
> yours, then you're not reproducing the same commits he has--you're just
> creating new commits that happen to have nearly identical content.
No, I'm not cherry-picking his patches. 

>From the discussions on git IRC, I think it may be caused by a bad
procedure when solving a conflict, after merging from Linus tree.

>From what I'm understanding now, I should do, when a conflict is
detected:

nano <files>
git-update-index <files>
git commit

Previously (at git 1.1.4), I was doing:
nano <files>
git commit <files>

git 1.2.4 don't allow this bad commit syntax anymore.

> 
> --b.
Cheers, 
Mauro.