I have a standard situation: forked project P on github into my project M. Cloned M to local disk, branched master->B on disk. Made few changes in B, committed and pushed B into M.
Then upstream P made a lot of changes themselves in P/master. 'git fetch upstream && git checkout master && git merge upstream/master' - synced my master branch ok. Now 'git checkout B && git merge master' says that there are conflicts in 2 files. When I look at these lines, I didn't touch them where it says there are conflicts. Additionally, it shows that many files are modified, also some files are newly added, and I didn't modify or add them. When I merge with 'git rebase master' command, it shows that there are conflicts in 3 files, but no added files, and many modified files are also gone. Why untouched by me master branch merges fine, and the same merge on slightly modified branch B shows a lot of changes that I didn't make? Both master and B have the same base, and are very close. Why 'git merge' shows conflicts in fewer files than 'git rebase'? Isn't conflict either there or not there? It shouldn't depend on the method of merge. Why it shows changes that came from upstream as if I made them? There are probably one or two real conflicts, but git just doesn't show them properly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.