From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink Subject: Re: git merge conflict resolution? Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:58:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20090925095831.GA17721@atjola.homenet> References: <200909250101.n8P11HwO030173@hera.kernel.org> <1253841510.18126.10.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Russell King To: Joe Perches X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 25 11:58:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr7Zc-0006nv-7R for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:58:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751826AbZIYJ6f convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:58:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751825AbZIYJ6e (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:58:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43255 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750992AbZIYJ6d (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:58:33 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2009 09:58:35 -0000 Received: from i59F578FB.versanet.de (EHLO atjola.homenet) [89.245.120.251] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 25 Sep 2009 11:58:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5039886 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/fg8dH5hTf44SSSnrJpam48k6A/s3E7eaeNfRZUv GIlG33vL+Kxzf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1253841510.18126.10.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2009.09.24 18:18:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Question about how git does merge conflict resolution. >=20 > This patch doesn't really apply, and the results after the > patch aren't what at least I expect. [...] > Russell's patch removes the "(moderated for non-subscribers)" > from each entry, yet the final result includes it. >=20 > Can someone help me understand why? If you look at baea7b946f00a291b166ccae7fcfed6c01530cc6, you see: Merge branch 'origin' into for-linus Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Git was unable to automatically merge that file, as there were conflicting changes. That merge was done by Russel King, and _he_ decided that the result should include the "(moderated for ...)" part. Bj=F6rn