Re: git-svn rebase can change branches during merge?

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jan Krüger <jk@xxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
>> I've outlined steps where I can reproduce this bug here:
>> http://gist.github.com/80058
>>
>> When using "git svn rebase" and there is a conflict between a local
>> (git) change and an upstream (svn) change, the local git repository is
>> left in a ghost-branch. It shouldn't change branches during a rebase,
>> should it? I also seem to be unable to recover from the merge
>> conflict, but that may be just due to the noob at the keyboard (me).
>
> rebase doesn't actually switch to another branch here, but it does
> detach HEAD. To get back to a state you can work from, it's a simple
> case of following the instructions rebase outputs:
>
> 1) edit conflicted files to fix the conflicts.
> 2) stage new versions of files (e.g. git add file.txt)
> 3) git rebase --continue
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> jast@perceptron 1% cat test.txt
> <<<<<<< HEAD:test.txt
> git svn rebase blows up here
> =======
> hello from svn
> hello from git
>>>>>>>> add to txt file from git:test.txt
> jast@perceptron % git branch
> * (no branch)
>  master
> jast@perceptron % vim test.txt
> [...]
> jast@perceptron % git add test.txt
> jast@perceptron % git rebase --continue
> Applying: add to txt file from git
> jast@perceptron % git branch
> * master
> jast@perceptron %
>
> Make sense?
> -Jan
>

I think so. Thanks for the detailed examples.

I think sometimes I was committing after adding the fixed files, which
would seem to succeed but then the 'git rebase --continue' would blow
up and I couldn't get back to master without 'git rebase --abort'.

Thanks again!


-- 
Cheers,

Kevin Williams
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