The best way of understanding and also of asking questions, is if you can reproduce the steps of exactly what you want and don't understand by a sequence of commands like so: # First create a bare repository mkdir R cd R git init --bare . # Clone it into A git clone R A # Clone it into B git clone R B # Now start doing changes for A and B, pulling and pushing into R cd A echo "Change #1" > hello.txt git add hello.txt git commit -m 'Commit #1' git push origin master # Get into B cd ../B git pull echo "Change #2" >> hello.txt git commit -a -m 'Commit #2' git push # Get into A and pull the changes done by B cd ../A git pull In this sequence, which fulfills the scenario that you described, there are no conflicts. So I suggest that you try to change the command sequence to illustrate what you don't understand and ask again. Regards, Dov On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 05:12, chirin <takonatto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm just beginning to use Git in my workplace, and (rather shamefully) have > never heard of Git until now. While I pore over the stacks of documentations > for beginners, could someone help me understand this issue I've been having? > > Every time a colleague updates a file, I would not be able to pull due to > merge conflicts - even though I have never made any changes to the > repository. I'd try and then again, but it would still give the same merge > conflict. The only way I could pull currently is to do a git commit (even > without changes), and then git pull. > > If this was SVN, I could simply resolve this with Update. What am I missing, > and what should I be looking for? > > Thanks in advance.. > > -- > View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Git-beginner-Need-help-understanding-tp7129186p7129186.html > Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- > 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 -- 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