On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 7:44 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> 于2022年5月7日周六 12:09写道: > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:24 AM Christian Couder > > <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 10:15 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > > > I think it's not useful for git merge-octopus, because if we meet a > > > > merge conflict, we can't find > > > > MERGE_HEAD at all! How can we abort this conflict merge? > > > > MERGE_HEAD doesn't have anything to do with aborting the conflict > > resolution step. When you need to abort, the thing you want to go > > back to is HEAD (which represents the commit you had checked out and > > were merging the other stuff into), not MERGE_HEAD (which represents > > the branch or branches you were merging into HEAD). > > > > Thanks for clarifying. As I reply to Christian, when I just use "git > merge A B C" happily, > and there is a conflict, so I try "git merge --abort" as usual, but it > can not work... git tell me: > > fatal: There is no merge to abort (MERGE_HEAD missing). Sounds like a bug to me; .git/MERGE_HEAD should be written. That file is created for me when I set up a simple octopus merge that has conflicts. Do you have a set of steps others can use to reproduce the problem you are seeing?