git mergetool reports “No files need merging”
This fixed it for me: git mergetool . I found this fix here
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Git rebase loses history, then why rebase?
Imagine you are working on a Secret Project of World Domination. There are three masterminds on this conspiracy: The Genius The General The Computer Hacker And they all agree to come to their secret base in 1 week each one with 1 detailed plan. The computer hacker, being a pragmatic programmer, suggested that they use … Read more
Telling if a Git commit is a Merge/Revert commit
Figuring out if something is a merge is easy. That’s all commits with more than one parent. To check for that, you can do, for example $ git cat-file -p $commit_id If there’s more than one `parent’ line in the output, you found a merge. For reverts it’s not as easy. Generally reverts are just … Read more
How do I resolve a conflict after git pull?
You don’t need mergetool for this. It can be resolved pretty easily manually. Your conflict is that your local commits added a file, vision_problem_8.h, that a remote commit also created, by a rename from vignette_generator_mashed.h. If you run ls -l vision_problem_8.h* you will probably see multiple versions of this file that git has preserved for … Read more
How to make git merge handle uncommitted changes to my working tree?
Forget everything you ever learned from subversion. Always commit before introducing external changes. Imagine you had a mostly-working tree — maybe not perfect, but you’re making some progress. Then you go to do a merge and the code you’re bringing in just wreaked havoc (was buggy itself, too many conflicts to deal with, etc…). Wouldn’t … Read more
Git merge after fetch – how, exactly?
git merge origin/master should work. Since master is usually a tracking branch, you could also do git pull from that branch and it will do a fetch & merge for you. If you have local changes on your master that aren’t reflected on origin, you might want git rebase origin/master to make sure your commits … Read more
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
This means that you need to explicitly tell Git that you’ve resolved a conflict at each file or folder (that is path). 1. Look at the list of files with yet unresolved conflicts git status 2. Mark each file as resolved Once you have resolved conflicts in a file, add it to mark that conflicts … Read more
Visual Studio 2015 How to merge a branch into master?
The way to merge development_print branch into master branch as below: VS -> Team Explorer -> Branches -> double click master branch -> Merge -> select development_print for Merge from branch -> Merge. The select box shows: development_print master origin/development_print origin/master That means you have branches development_print and master for both local and remote. origin/ … Read more
Git merge branch into master
Conflicts are going to happen if both branches have changes to the files. This is a good thing. Keeping your branches up-to-date with each other will prevent some of them . However over all, conflicts are not bad. The rebase option can also prevent many of them from happening. git merge branch_1 If you are … Read more
What exactly is a merge conflict?
You will have a conflict if you merge: branch2 to master (no conflict) branch3 to master (conflict): That is because: The common ancestor would be master (with a second line empty) the source content is branch3 (with a second line including “3”) the destination content is on latest of master (with a second line including … Read more