Merge conflict

[YU Bo]

Hello,
At 2016-02-15 16:57:46, "Ebru Akagündüz" <ebru.akagunduz at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>>> Hi,
>>> Some days ago i followed the tips:
>>> http://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch
>>> git clone greg's git tree and built branch first-patch.
>>> Due to my first patch that fixes coding style reported
>>> by checkptch.pl didn't applied,so i intend to rebase my
>>> git branch first-patch.The question i encounter is:
>>> ==================git command && output========
>>> yubo at debian:~/maintree/staging$  git rebase first-patch
>>> It looks like git-am is in progress. Cannot rebase.
>>> yubo at debian:~/maintree/staging$ git am --abort
>>> You seem to have moved HEAD since the last 'am' failure.
>>> Not rewinding to ORIG_HEAD
>>> yubo at debian:~/maintree/staging$ git rebase first-patch
>>> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
>>> Applying: ovl: default permissions
>>> Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
>>> Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
>>> ----
>>> Auto-merging drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
>>> Failed to merge in the changes.
>>> Patch failed at 0010 drm/i915: Only run commit when crtc is active, v2.
>>>
>>> Is there  something with wrong?
>>> Thanks in advance for the noisy.
>
>If you would like to update your patch with newest version of the tree,
>I recommend to you, use git am. Here is the blog post:
>http://www.pizzhacks.com/bugdrome/2011/10/deal-with-git-am-failures/
>
>After updating your current tree;
>
>Firstly, you should give the command:
>1- git am your_old_patch
>
>After seeing, it could not be applied, give this:
>2- git apply PATCH --reject
>
>You'll see rejected and applied chunks, the rejected parts will be specified
>with extension .rej (with related file name). You should edit related
>files manually.
>
>3- git add fixed_files
>4- git am --resolved
>
>
>All done :). This way seems easier to me. The blog post explained
>steps, quite clear as well.

>


Thanks.  I will learn more about git.
>Kind regards,
>Ebru
>
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>
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