On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 18:07 EDT, "J.V." <jvsrvcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a branch for which I have made 0 (nada) changes. I did the > following: > > $git pull --rebase --no-stat -v --progress origin mybranch > > I get the following > > U java/Profile.java > Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files. > Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' > as appropriate to mark resolution, or use 'git commit -a'. > ---------- (there is no local master branch), because of the > conflict I was put on (no branch) > * (no branch) > branch1 > dev > tmpWork > > Question 1) > Why did I get a merge conflict if I have not changed any files? The error message indicates that you already had a pending merge conflict when you initiated the pull. Why you had that is impossible to tell. > Question 2) > What is the command to show the difference between the files? (is > there a visual tool that would let me merge)? You're looking for this form of "git diff": git diff [options] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] Example: git diff origin/master HEAD -- file.c file.h There are many graphical diff and merge tools that you can configure for use with Git, e.g. kdiff3 and meld. See git-difftool(1) and git-mergetool(1). [...] -- Magnus Bäck baeck@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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