Re: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Ryan Robertson
I wish I could give you an explanation why non EN files were edited. All I know is that I see them in one of your commits, hence the merge conflict. Did you notice that some non EN files were edited before you committed those changes to your repo?​

RE: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Unwalla
As best I remember, this was the sequence: 1. I could not discard changes in GitHub Desktop. (I cannot remember the message that GitHub Desktop gave, all I know is that I wanted to discard changes.) 2. Because I did not find an answer using my favourite search engine, I contacted GitHub

RE: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Unwalla
.gitattributes was added by GitHub Desktop during the setup process. So, I just accepted what GitHub Desktop recommended. Yes, line endings cause problems, specially when working cross-platorm. Refer to 'Formatting and Whitespace' in

RE: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Unwalla
Hi Daniel, I accepted Ryan's clean-up. For now, I will continue to work with my fork. > you might want to install git (not the Desktop version from Github) and run "gitk" GitHub Desktop comes with Git. A nice feature is that the software updates automatically, so I will always have the most

RE: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Unwalla
Ryan, Thanks. Yes, I saw +<<< HEAD. I have gone round in circles trying to deal with the conflicts. To remove the conflict, I copied the content from the languagetool-org repository to my clone of my repository. Then, I added the file for staging and then committed. Then, I pushed the

Re: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Ryan Robertson
@Mike, to be honest, I suspect it may have had something to do with the .gitattributes files you checked into your repo. (But I don't really know for sure since I'm new to working with git.) Line ending normalization sounds like something that would change files without you actually editing

Re: GitHub Desktop: request for help

2016-05-03 Thread Ryan Robertson
@Mike, looks like I was wrong about the .gitattributes file. :) Last night (for me) I had the same experience of not being able to discard from GitHub Desktop. Now I know it's caused by files that have failed to merge! The way I handled the merge conflicts in your repo was to use notepad++ to