Re: Untracked working tree files

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> >  - a merge goes south with a data conflict, and since it's all automated, 
> >    you just want to throw it away.
> 
> Actually, with your filename, I suspect the conflict would be not a real 
> file content, but more of a "delete" conflicting with a modification to 
> that file. IOW, I'm guessing that the thing you hit with 
> arch/x86/kernel/apic.c was that some branch you pulled:
> 
>  - created that file
> 
>  - deleted arch/x86/kernel/apic_[32|64].c
> 
>  - the old file got marked as a rename source for the new apic.c and 
>    there was a data conflict when trying to apply the changes.
> 
> as a result, your working tree would have that "apic.c" file in it, but 
> with conflict markers, and marked as unmerged.

That sounds likely.  I suspect things were especially bad today because
I accidentally pulled four-week-old linux-next, which had over 500
rejects in it.