On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> André Hänsel <andre@xxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> I ran git merge to merge a branch. There were some conflicted files. >>>> Although they were automatically resolved by git rerere, I still had to add >>>> them. >>> >>> If you want them to be added automatically, set rerere.autoupdate=true. >> >> I would have to caution against doing so without thinking, though. >> In other words, it is OK if you are Andreas who knows what he is >> doing, but it is not a very good advice to give to random newbies. > > If you are used to doing "git add ." afterwards it can't be much worse. The right response to such a user would be to teach "add -u", or better yet to teach to use "add" on individual files as they are examined, no? -- 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