Hi, On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:43:48PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:58:51PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > > > $ git checkout master > > > > > Switched to branch "master" > > > > > $ git cherry-pick 8ddc4d5 > > > > > CONFLICT (file/directory): There is a directory with name link in > > > > > 8ddc4d5... file. Added link as link~HEAD > > > > > > > > Here you _still_ have the file in master. So that conflict is really > > > > expected, since a cherry-pick will only do a three-way merge. > > > > > > git-cherry-pick(1) states > > > Given one existing commit, apply the change the patch introduces, and > > > record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to > > > be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). > > > > > > The patch introduced by the commit that's cherry-pick'ed has nothing to > > > do with the link or new directory, it just changes 'file' > > > > > > $ git show 8ddc4d5 > > > commit 8ddc4d59444a362261e10a3b22324818f5dd2fa7 > > > Author: Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Wed Jun 13 09:10:30 2007 +0000 > > > > > > file > > > > > > diff --git a/file b/file > > > index 257cc56..3bd1f0e 100644 > > > --- a/file > > > +++ b/file > > > @@ -1 +1,2 @@ > > > foo > > > +bar > > > $ > > > > > > The patch applies to master just fine. Where's my thinking wrong? > > > > Hmm. Indeed. Thanks for clearing that up. Will work on it later. > > Hi, did you get to this yet?, not to stress you, just to make sure we > don't forget about it. I did not have time yet. Thanks for the reminder. Just for the record, if you send a reply to my message to the list, but without Cc: to me, I am very likely to miss it. Just by chance I did not, this time. Ciao, Dscho - 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