Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Renk Thorsten
The typical fix is to edit the conflicting files and git add them the run git rebase --continue. But these files don't exist so I can't edit them, git add fails, git rm also fails since they don't exist. If the files no longer exist, I think one solution is to tell the system to skip the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Curtis Olson
It looks like every time you rebase you have to reapply the same set of patches over top the target branch. So even if I figure out a way through it once, I'll have to repeat the same conconction of craziness each time I rebase. I think I'm going to create a new branch, untar my changes on top,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Curtis Olson wrote: It looks like every time you rebase you have to reapply the same set of patches over top the target branch. So even if I figure out a way through it once, I'll have to repeat the same conconction of craziness each time I rebase. I think I'm going to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Anders Gidenstam anders-...@gidenstam.orgwrote: If you can figure out which commits cause the problems you can edit them out of your branch (or, better, out of a copy of it) using git rebase -i HEAD~42 (change 42 to the number of commits back from HEAD that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread John Denker
On 08/09/2012 07:45 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: It looks like every time you rebase you have to reapply the same set of patches over top the target branch. Not true in general. I've never had a problem like that. So even if I figure out a way through it once, I'll have to repeat the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Tim Moore
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like every time you rebase you have to reapply the same set of patches over top the target branch. So even if I figure out a way through it once, I'll have to repeat the same conconction of craziness each time I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-09 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Tim Moore wrote: If you are going to keep a branch for a long time that you are not merging back into e.g., master, there are a couple of possibilities. One is to merge (pull) master into your branch. Another is to check out git-rerere (I kid you not), which

[Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-08 Thread Curtis Olson
I've run into a problem with git and I seem to hit a dead end no matter which way I turn. I'm hoping this is something easy to solve, but the details might be complicated to communicate? I'll try to start simple -- I'm working with the fgdata repository. I created my own branch and have been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-08 Thread Curtis Olson
A quick update here. Rob pointed out the git rebase --abort command which got me back to a sensible working state. I was able to reevaluate my original problem which turned out to be a simple merge conflict in my branch vs. changes in master and I was able to fix that and successfully merge --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-08 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: A quick update here. Rob pointed out the git rebase --abort command which got me back to a sensible working state. I was able to reevaluate my original problem which turned out to be a simple merge conflict in my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-08 Thread Tim Moore
It sounds like your local tree has not been completely committed. See what git status says. Check out the man page for git-mv. I can't say more right at the moment, but I'll see if I can add more details later. Tim On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: A quick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git help request

2012-08-08 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Tim Moore wrote: It sounds like your local tree has not been completely committed. See what git status says. Check out the man page for git-mv. I can't say more right at the moment, but I'll see if I can add more details later. There are a couple other