On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:55:15AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt: needs update > > fatal: Entry 'Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge. > > This means that it's dirty in the index, not that you've committed any > changes. > > Do a "git diff". For some reason, that shows that file being deleted. diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e71bc6c..0000000 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,373 +0,0 @@ ... > (It may also be that the diff is empty, and only shows the filename. That > means that you've changed the mtime - for example edited it, and then > undone the edit Hmm, this tree is on NFS. The server was 2-3 seconds ahead of the client (for some reason ntp wasn't running), but I wouldn't expect such chaos to ensue from this? > - so that the file is dirty in the index, even if the > _contents_ are the same. If so, do a "git-update-index --refresh" or > similar, or just ask for "git status", which will do it for you as part of > checking the status of all your files). Hmm. git status shows a ton of modified files, that I know I've never touched. 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# deleted: Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt # Spooky. I'm seriously questioning myself whether or not I have done something to this tree, but I'm 99.999% sure it's unmodified (by me at least). git diff on any of the modified files shows no output, which could be explained by your modified timestamp theory, but how about the deleted/new files ? Dave - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html