I had seen something similar: Merging linux-scsi into my own branches whereby both had a particular patch (03aba2f79594ca94d159c8bab454de9bcc385b76), git-merge complained that a resolve is needed. After manually "resolving" the result was identical to either branch (linux-scsi and my own), so in fact the diff was 0. I found this strange, but due to lack of time couldn't pursue it further. Luben - : 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