The following is an easy mistake to make for users coming from version control systems with an "update and commit"-style workflow. 1. git merge 2. resolve conflicts 3. git pull, instead of commit This overrides MERGE_HEAD, starting a new merge with dirty index. IOW, probably not what the user intented. Instead, refuse to merge again if a merge is in progress. Reported-by: Dave Olszewski <cxreg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> --- builtin-merge.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-merge.c b/builtin-merge.c index 0b58e5e..74a8c8f 100644 --- a/builtin-merge.c +++ b/builtin-merge.c @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct commit_list **remotes = &remoteheads; setup_work_tree(); - if (read_cache_unmerged()) + if (read_cache_unmerged() || file_exists(git_path("MERGE_HEAD"))) die("You are in the middle of a conflicted merge."); /* -- 1.6.3.1.147.g637c3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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