Hello,
did you modify the conflicting *files*? Maybe git's diff/merge algorithm
gets confused about some lines, but without actual real data it's hard to
tell.
Best,
Gergely
On 14 Jun 2015 05:19, "YV" wrote:
> 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.
>
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