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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No way to resolve git am conflicts.
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:36:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110108163633.GB28898@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ig9nqq$4ib$1@dough.gmane.org>

Stephen Kelly wrote:

> git am the.patch
[...]
> Applying: Introduce new configuation option to override committer 
> information
> error: patch failed: builtin/commit.c:1352
> error: builtin/commit.c: patch does not apply
> Patch failed at 0001 Introduce new configuation option to override committer 
> information
> When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
> If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
> To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".
> $ git diff
[...]
> As git status doesn't tell me what the conflict is, I can't resolve it.

Have you tried "git am -3" or "git am --reject" (after "git am
--abort")?

I agree that the hints printed are suboptimal in this case.  Please
feel free to make them better if you have time for it. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-08 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-08 13:11 No way to resolve git am conflicts Stephen Kelly
2011-01-08 16:36 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-01-08 19:21   ` Stephen Kelly

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