>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Alex> No, it wont. What files are you going to add? Whatever you are working on. Whatever you want tracked. It's a commit. I'm not sure why you're having trouble following me. What did I leave out? >> git-rebase *will* do the merge. It must. :) Alex> It won't merge anything which isn't known to git. And that's irrelevant, because my first step *did* a commit so they are *known* to git. Alex> Now, I come to think Alex> about it, no existing merge method will help you here (and very likely Alex> it shouldn't). Yes, it should. You're merging your changes onto the upstream. This happens dozens of times a day with git repos all over the world. :) Alex> It is actually much simplier doing things right: all this stashing Alex> people keep talking about. Yes, and that's what I said too. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - 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