I have no idea, I know git just barely to be able to update my copy once in a while, then build it to get the binaries. I didn't modified anything and the build script builds the binaries in a different location. The file which threw the first error was already in my copy and it was modified in the remote branch. --- Daniel On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:46, Santi Béjar <santi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Blendea <bdaniel7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A while ago I have cloned on my computer a git repo. >> Since then, the developers have modified several files in the repo. >> Now I want to update my copy with the latest changes. >> >> I do 'git pull' but I get 'Your local changes to .... would be >> overwritten by merge. Aborting.' >> I didn't modified any local file. I tried using 'git stash save' but no luck. > > Are they known to git? What is their status (git status)? > > If they are not known to git, it seams that there are *new* files both > in the remote branch and the working copy (new files in the working > copy are not saved with 'git stash save'). > > I would rename/mv the conflicting new files in the working copy, > perform the pull and maybe compare the new files from the branch with > the ones from the working copy. > > HTH, > Santi > -- 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