On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe+git@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all. > > I tried the scenario described in > $GIT_DIR/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt and have some problems > with it. > > My setup: > > I use git to track my changes in three different "project directories", lets > say: > > ...../src_root/libfoo > ...../src_root/appbar > ...../bin_root/installed > > All three git repositories contain a topic branch (lets say 'current-work') > that I want to track. > > Now I want to setup one git repository containing only the three directories > 'libfoo', 'appbar', and 'installed' that others can clone easily. Reading the > above howto document, I think this should be possible. > > I do: > > $ mkdir super-prj > $ cd super-prj > $ git init > $ git add remote -f libfoo ../path/to/src_root/libfoo > > OK. No problem. > > The problem arises after the second step of the howto: > > $ git merge -s ours --no-commit libfoo/current-work > > Now, all files of 'libfoo' are in the current directory. This is not what I > want. > > Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? You are trying to merge libfoo with an empty project, so the merge just "fast-forward" to the other commit as you do not have an "ours". Simply skip the merge step. Santi -- 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
