From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'git commit' duplicates parents?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:40:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B62C85.10701@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506191926530.2268@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Btw, if possibly, you should just undo it. It's "valid" in the sense that
Any crap like this, I undo it manually (cat previous head to .git/HEAD)
> Again, "git commit" _did_ warn about this, I'm sure, but I actually see
> why that stupid MERGE_HEAD file was there - a null merge won't remove a
> stale MERGE_HEAD, so it's probably because you did a "git pull" that was a
> trivial merge, and that would have left that turd around..
Probably PEBCAK... my missing the big "MERGE_HEAD exists" warning
caused the problem, it sounds like.
I simply assumed that the vanilla git scripts would clean up after
themselves :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 16:27 'git commit' duplicates parents? Jeff Garzik
2005-06-19 16:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-20 2:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 2:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-20 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 2:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-06-20 3:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 9:48 ` Dan Holmsand
2005-06-20 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 17:20 ` Dan Holmsand
2005-06-20 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-20 18:52 ` Dan Holmsand
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