Hi guys, So - again, I'm a clueless git user :-) basically the same setup and reproduction issue as last time, except I'm now purely using (hopefully) a stable git: version 1.7.3.4 Setup: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-core git checkout integration/dev300_m98 git remote add stage git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/staging/libs-core git fetch stage Reproduce: git merge stage/dev300 Then have a look at: ucb/qa/complex/tdoc/CheckTransientDocumentsDocumentContent.java a file that (AFAICS) we have made no change on in our master branch, but has had a couple of changes in dev300; I see sections like this: import com.sun.star.ucb.XContent; <<<<<<< HEAD import com.sun.star.ucb.XContentAccess; import com.sun.star.ucb.XContentIdentifier; import com.sun.star.ucb.XContentIdentifierFactory; import com.sun.star.ucb.XContentProvider; ======= >>>>>>> stage/ooo/dev300 I would expect no conflicts. These conflicts seem to come from a later commit on the ooo/dev300 branch: commit 01ed463f7e1ea8b5d290273203386c0a76378c08 Author: Lars Langhans <lla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 8 08:35:09 2010 +0200 sb123:#i111449# cleanups in ucb qa/complex tests yet, this was based on the previous commit: commit 89f7530c91745d16ab2cb59014c7b1543967e0b4 Author: Jens-Heiner Rechtien <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 12 15:01:35 2010 +0100 changefileheader2: #i109125#: change source file copyright notice from Sun Microsystems to Oracle; remove CVS style keywords (RCSfile, Revision) That is present (although clearly with a different hash) in both repositories. So if I have a branch with commits A -> F and master has commits A -> D - (and nothing else) I would expect merging that branch to yield state 'F' without conflicts; but most likely I'm missing something, and perhaps there is some subtle (whitespace related?) difference that I do not see. Of course, this is not the only instance I see of this sort of thing, but hopefully it is a reasonably simple one, for a file with only a handful of commits. Kendy - do you think this could be caused by the application of the de-tab-ification logic ? or do you apply that for every change ? Thanks, Michael. -- michael.meeks@xxxxxxxxxx <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- 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