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RE: Merge problem

From: Andreas Tscharner <Andreas.Tscharner_at_metromec.ch>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:56:42 +0000

[snip]
> Just wondering if anyone may have an idea how my repository
> got so buggered up. I tried to merge a branch to the trunk
> and received 49 conflicts. 2 are files that do not need to
> be tracked so that leaves 47. Out of the 47 there are two
> problems, local add, incoming add upon merge & local delete,
> incoming delete upon merge. I was doing some code cleanup so
> it is possible I deleted the files in two different branches.
> But I know for certain that I did not create the same file
> twice. I did a diff on the first one and it is identical in
> both branches, easy to fix, difficult to determine how the
> conflict came about. The second file is different, I deleted
> dome code that is not needed anymore. More work to fix.
> With the conflict it causes the merge to fail thus making
> this much more time consuming to fix. The question I have is

I don't want to offend anyone here, but such bogus merge conflicts were the reason we changed to git.

> anyone know what I could’ve done to create these false conflicts?
>
Not to my knowledge...

Best regards
WENZEL Metromec AG
        Andreas

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Received on 2014-09-10 12:57:15 CEST

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