On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2011, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: >> I have deleted the whole top-level directory in which the file was and run: >> >> $ git status | grep <<PATH>> >> # deleted: <<PATH>> >> >> $ git checkout -- <<top dir>> >> >> $ git status >> # On branch master >> nothing to commit (working directory clean) >> >> $ git cherry-pick 7d193bb0c1f14908361d9d9d5e30f0c12d5f2c2f >> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by >> merge: <<PATH>> >> Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge. >> Aborting > > A wild guess: You are on Windows or OS/X, and the file exists in your worktree > with different uppercase/lowercase name? Rename the file so that its case is > the same as it is recorded in the repository. Nope, I'm on linux with case-sensitive file system. Some commits to svn repository are coming from windows. But the cherry-picked one was my commit from linux. It was first done in git, then dcomitted to svn and then I tried to merge it to git branch - that failed. -- Piotrek -- 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