The case:
Locally, I have a commit where I have deleted a file. Remotely, someone else have changed this file.
Now, when I merge, I find that git has the put the changed file in my working tree. This is probably the way git works, and in git command line, I'd be able to use git mergetool to choose between the deleted or changed file.
In eGit, however, how would I make this choice?
We ended up with a quite unusable work-around where we first addded the file to the index and then deleted it in working tree and then saved this change (deletion) to the index.
Technical info:
The version of eGit (feature) we're using is 4.9.2.201712150930-r.
The version of git we're using is 2.16.1
Background:
My team have recently moved to using Git as our revision control system. There's a general wish from team members to use an integrated solution and since we're working with Eclipse, eGit seemed to be the way to go.
I would suggest that all your team members follow this process:
Commit your changes to your local repository.
Pull with rebase to merge with the remote origin branch.
Resolve the conflicts, if any. In your case, if you deleted the file before the other team member modified it, then that person would have noticed that the file has been deleted.
Push the commit upstream.
This process has worked for us. Hope this helps.
I get the Git conflict icon in Eclipse on lots of files, even though it seems that I resolved any possible conflicts.
In Eclipse 4.5.2, in the Project view, I select a project root and do right-click -> Compare to branch origin/master. Next, we see the Team Synchronization view. Many files show a red conflict icon., but they should not.
The Git staging view, which is supposed to show conflicts, is empty. I already tried Merge; Committing the merge (nothing remains to be committed). I tried Add to Index from the Git Staging view; and even Overwrite from the Team Synchronization view. Comparing the local and origin files shows that they are identical.
Git setting autocrlf is true, so that is not the issue.
This occurs repeatedly.
Why do I see this conflict icon? How can I get rid of it?
Did you do a pull? Or where you just comparing in Team Synchronization? In my experience the Team Synchronization perspective confuses the most people.
In general it should be used "read-only". Don't try to resolve any conflicts here. Per default you are comparing your working copy against the remote repository. Which means you actually have no conflict in your working copy. When you "fix" them here you are just making a local modification. You can commit that but it doesn't resolve any conflict. It makes the actual conflict even harder to resolve.
So don't do anything in the Team Synchronization perspective. Just do a pull to have those conflicts in your working copy and then resolve them. A merge conflict is marked as merged by moving them to the Staged Changes.
If something breaks and you want a new try do a reset --hard on the last commit in your local repository.
After editing the conflict resource properly. Right click on the conflict resource and click on *Mark as Merged".
See Resolving_a_merge_conflict. Also check this screen cast.
I am very new with git and repositorys and I have a problem. Me and my collegue were working on the same file.
He commited and pushed his changes.
I commited my changes
I pulled
Now I have conflicts and I want to solve them. How can I overwrite the conflicts so that my changes are on the file? I am working with Eclipse.
There is no easy way to resolve conflicts. But tools are available to make the process a little easier. Anyhow you will have to decide and manually make the changes so that both of your changes are available in the latest file.
Try: git mergetool
If you both edited separate parts of the file then the tool will automatically merge whereas if you both have edited the same part then some manual interaction is needed.
If you want Your changes you can use:
git fetch -p
git merge --ours
This will merge the remote with your local branches and in case of any conflict - use your version of code.
I've started Eclipse EGit. In some scenarios it is really not comprehensive.
I have local file e.g. pom.xml changed. On git server this file was changed.
I do pull, EGIt says:
Checkout conflict with files:
i.e. pulling stops (fetch is done, but not merge), that is OK. However the next is bad experience.
I synchronize workspace, put my changes aside and make it the same as FETCH_HEAD. But EGit doesn't want to continue. I replace the file with HEAD revision. But EGit still doesn't want to continue.
What standard expected user operation should be with EGit after conflict resolution?
UPDATE:
I added to index, then marked as Merged -> pull still can't pass.
When I select Merge I get the dialog
I can't commit the file as it is not in list of changed files.
Situation:
You have local uncommitted changes
You pull from the master repo
You get the error "Checkout conflict with files: xy"
Solution:
Stage and commit (at least) the files xy
Pull again
If automerge is possible, everything is ok.
If not, the pull merges the files and inserts the merge-conflict markers (<<<<<<, >>>>)
Manually edit the conflicting files
Commit and push
This is the way I solved my problem:
Right click the folder that has uncommitted changes on your local
Click Team > Advanced > Assume Unchanged
Pull from master.
UPDATE:
As Hugo Zuleta rightly pointed out, you should be careful while applying this. He says that it might end up saying the branch is up to date, but the changes aren't shown, resulting in desync from the branch.
After closing the Conflict Error Dialog; from the Project Explorer, right click on the head of the project -> Team -> Stashes -> Stash Changes
Enter a name for your stash. E.G. "Conflict"
Try Pulling again. Hopefully there are no errors this time.
From the Git Repository view, expand your repository -> Stashed Commits
Right Click on the stash you created in step 2 -> Apply Stashed Changes
This brings up the merge tool if it can't automatically merge it.
Manually resolve the merge conflicts in the file/s.
Right Click on the file editor -> Team -> Add To Index
If you are not ready to commit the file or just don't want it in the Index, right click on the file editor -> Team -> Remove from Index.
Cleanup: From the Git Repository view, right Click on the stash you created in step 2 -> Delete Stashed Commit
Your local working directory file should be be merged
If error comes for ".settings/language.settings.xml" or any such file you don't need to git.
Team -> Commit -> Staged filelist, check if unwanted file exists, ->
Right click on each-> remove from index.
From UnStaged filelist, check if unwanted file exists, -> Right click on each->
Ignore.
Now if Staged file list empty, and Unstaged file list all files are marked as Ignored. You can pull. Otherwise, follow other answers.
I guess the best way to do this is like this :
Store all your changes in a separate branch.
Then do a hard reset on the local master.
Then merge back your changes from the locally created branch
Then commit and push your changes.
That how I resolve mine, whenever it happens.
After you get from Eclipse the ugly CheckoutConflictException, the Eclipse-Merge Tool button is disabled.
Git need alle your files added to the Index for enable Merging.
So, to merge your Changes and commit them you need to add your files first to the index "Add to Index" and "Commit" them without "Push". Then you should see one pending pull and one pending push request in Eclipse. You see that in one up arrow and one down arrow.
If all conflict Files are in the commit, you can "pull" again. Then you will see something like:
\< < < < < < < HEAD
Server Version
\=======
Local Version
> > > > > > > branch 'master' of ....git
Then you either change it by the Merge-Tool, which is now enable or just do the merge by hand direct in the file. In the last step, you have to add the modified files again to the index and "Commit and Push" them.
Checking done!
The proper solution is the one provided by #Jojo.Lechelt.
However if you don't want to commit for any reason and still want to pull the changes,you may save your changes somewhere else,replace the conflicting file with HEAD revision and then pull.
Later you can paste your changes again and compare it with HEAD and incorporate other people changes into your file.
Right click on the project and select [replace with] -> Head Revision .Now select pull changes in current branch or pull changes from upstream.
In Eclipse :-
Right click -> click on 'add to index'
Add conflict file in staged area
Right Click ->click on commit
Add conflict file in local repository
Pull
You will get all changes (change in remote repository and local repository)
Changes mentioned as Head(<<<<<< HEAD) is your change, Changes mentioned in branch(>>>>>>> branch) is other person change, you can update file accordingly.
Right click ->click on add to index
Right click -> commit and push
I have completely different experience with this problem.
when I pulled (my staging are were clean!), I saw lot of files in staging after pull, which I didn't changed or added, So I cleaned staging area again by replace with head. After trying pull again I faced same problem again, now this time I did following:
stashed changes
Close any file open in another program from your repository
Try pulling
Hope this solve your issue.
Thanks
I'm working on a project in Eclipse that was cloned from a GIT remote repository. The Eclipse eGit plug-in allows you to get going without really understanding anything about GIT, which is where I was. I've eventually realized that when I do a "compare with HEAD revision" I'm not as I first thought comparing with the remote repository, but with my local repository. I understand now that I need to pull updates from the remote repository, but it's not clear what will happen to my local changes. I've not committed these changes, partly because I thought I might be updating the remote repository (I realize now that I won't) but partly because I find the Package Explorer file decoration (">") is useful in identifying the files I've modified. If I commit then I assume these indications will disappear.
My questions:
How do I update my local repository without losing my changes?
Can I do this without losing my modified file indicators?
Update: I thought I understood how some of this worked, but I'm really lost now, particularly by the relationship between workspace and (local) repository.
I used Team->Pull to update my repository. Since I've not committed any changes, I expected this to work without conflict, but it flagged up all the changes between the workspace and repo as conflicts (confusion #1).
I assumed I needed to use Team->Synchronize to bring changes into the workspace, as I would with other VCSs. When I do, I see the changes, but not even the non-conflict updates have been applied to the workspace and there is no "Update" operation to do this, so I don't know how to apply them (confusion #2).
For the conflicting updates, I manually merged the changes into the workspace copy and used "Mark as merged", but this seems to do nothing. The conflict is not cleared. I would expect at this point the change would just be an uncommitted change in the workspace (confusion #3).
I read elsewhere that to remove conflicts I should use Team->Add and Team->Commit, but I don't want to commit my changes as I explained originally (confusion #4).
You can see I'm confused! Any help will be much appreciated.
If git pull does not work, you can use this:
git stash
git pull
git stash apply
not sure eclipse supports stash, so you may have to use the command line.