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merge flags all files as modified [message #666110] Tue, 19 April 2011 03:39 Go to next message
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Hi all,

I wonder if this is a normal behaviour. Each time I merge 2 branches (either from same repo or from origin), I have all my files flagged as changed and must commit them all.

Is it really the way it should work? It's hard after that to verify if the merge was correctly done because we don't have a way to quickly see what changed.

Max
Re: merge flags all files as modified [message #666129 is a reply to message #666110] Tue, 19 April 2011 04:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
No, that is of course not the normal behaviour. If the automatic merge is succesfull no file should be marked as modified (there is nothing to commit anymore). If the automatic merge is not succesfull all files touch by the merge should be marked as modified. At least my EGit behaves like that and I cannot reproduce the problem - so there must be something strange with your repo/egit. Can you specify exactly a way how to reproduce this with an openly available repo? E.g. "when I clone repo git://github..../xyz.git and then I merge branch master into test then all files are marked as modified". Ideally you create a bug at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
Re: merge flags all files as modified [message #666141 is a reply to message #666129] Tue, 19 April 2011 06:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
I don't have access to github inside the company. However, I could reproduce the problem with a brand new repository.
Here are my steps:
1.Created the repository using "git extensions"
2. creates a Java project in repository
3. share the project
4. add 3 classes: A, B, C
5. create "work" branch, checkout
6. edit A, commit
7. checkout master
8. edit B, commit
9. checkout "work"
10. edit A, commit
11. checkout master
12. merge with "work"

now all files are marked "Mod., not staged", including C.java, .classpath and .project.

eGit + jGit versions = 0.11.3

Can you reproduce it?

I created Bug 343253

Max
Re: merge flags all files as modified [message #666436 is a reply to message #666141] Wed, 20 April 2011 09:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Why don't you create the repository using EGit ?
Re: merge flags all files as modified [message #666581 is a reply to message #666436] Thu, 21 April 2011 03:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
You're right, it doesn't happen with a repository created using egit.

Is eGit only supposed to work correctly with repositories it created ? It think that git extension relies on the reference git libraries but I'm not sure.

Re: merge flags all files as modified [message #667849 is a reply to message #666581] Mon, 02 May 2011 08:53 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
EGit is definitively supposed to be interoperable with native git.
I don't use gitextensions so I don't know if it brings some problems into this game.

Maybe gitextensions sees some different configuration for
core.fileMode, core.ignorecase, core.eol, core.safecrlf, core.autocrlf [1]. Or your two branches only differ in line endings ? How do these changes you have to commit look like (double click on files in the file list of the commit dialog to open a diff view) ?

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.h tml
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