As the title states, I'm attempting to pull from a git repository that I'm sharing between my friend and I and I can commit, he can commit, but whenever either one of us attempt to pull it brings back that it failed: DIRTY_WORKTREE
Both of us are extremely new to git, and have zero direction on how to fix this issue.
I was able to fix a similar issue by using the git command line client. While eclipse (egit) was only saying DIRTY_WORKTREE, in the command line I saw multiple conflicting files. Using git merge master from the command line, I could easily resolve the conflicts then in eclipse.
So for me this seems to be an egit issue.
Another approach, if you don't have any work in progress, is to try and reset --hard your HEAD.
With EGit: Resetting your current HEAD:
Select Team -> Reset... on a project. This opens a dialog where you can select a branch or a tag.
Reset HEAD on your current branch, in order to reset index and working tree to the last commit of said branch.
Then try your pull.
I had uncommitted changes. After I committed them, then merged, the dirty worktree issue disappeared.
Just delete the .gitignore present in the project folder, and then merge.
The merge will show conflicts , which you need to resolve and then push the changes.
It seems to mean that the version you are on now has edits that are not yet committed. So you either have to remove these edits, or commit them. Notice that if you commit them you may get merge conflicts.
This error is happening when you have made local changes to files that haven't been committed yet. In git's parlance, you have uncommitted changes in your working tree.
When you are in this situation and you try to pull, git is not sure what to do with the local changes you have. Should it discard those and pull the changes from the remote? Should it commit those before pulling the changes from the remote? That's why it fails.
To avoid this problem before you pull changes into your local repository you either have to commit your local changes, stash them, or discard them. Once you don't have pending local changes in your working tree, you should be able to pull with no errors.
In eclipse I went to Team Synchronizing View and from there right clicked on my project and hit 'overwrite' to overwrite all local changes. Then retry your merge.
Only to add another case, I've got DIRTY_WORKTREE, I'm the only one commiting to my Github project, so in EGit I did a Push branch... with "Force overwrite of branch on remote if it exists and has diverged"
DANGER: If other are working on the same project, this action will delete their commits since divergence.
I had similar problem on Eclipse with uncommited changes as ununiform.
After a commited I could merge and everything is back as it should be.
Take a look at your source code and check any changes. If none you can reset hard.
Delete the affected files and try to pull again. Thereafter push your changes to the git. I has the same issue and this worked for me.
In my case, the DIRTY_WORKTREE was caused by this sequence:
In a commit, I committed also some files that I should have ignored
In the next commit I modified the .gitignore that ignore the above files
Try to rebase on top of another branch where my change to .gitignore is missing
In this scenario, Eclipse thinks your working tree is dirty. Indeed, it is not obvious comparing two filesets when one of the two is ignoring some files and the other is not.
To solve the issue in Eclipse, I did the following:
Modify the .gitignore so it is the same as the one in the branch I want to rebase on
Happily start the rebasing or rebasing with merge.
If you have changes without commiting, eclipse will advise you if you try to pull changes. To solve it, you can discard the changes or do the commit of these files.
Source: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=890477&goto=1565668&#msg_1565668
If you want to override you local branch to the origin branch.
Go to Git repo view> click on origin master> Choose reset ->it will show current HEAD and resetting to branch.
Choose HARD reset, if you want to completely overwrite your local changes
I think this problem is caused by EGit version.
When I used Spring Tools Suite with EGit 2.6, I also faced same problems.
EGit is included in STS Default package, so EGit upgrade is very difficult.
Currently I am using eclipse WTP with EGit 3.7, this problem is disappeared.
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My coworker and I are working in the same branch which was cut from develop. There are many files to be taken care of by both of us.
The scenario I’m facing is that
I did some changes and pushed my code to the remote repo. My coworker also did some changes in his local and and now he is not able to take a pull. It shows merge conflict while pulling.
Can someone let me know how can we resolve this?
Based on my understanding, I think we made some changes in the same files and now to merge them, git is causing that conflict.
First, make sure to use:
git config --global pull.rebase true
git config --global rebase.autoStash true
That way, a simple git pull will:
stash your work in progress
rebase your local commits (not yet pushed) on top of the updated remote upstream branch (instead of merging). That keep the history linear.
You can also activate rerere in order to not resolve the same conflict over and over again.
Finally, in case of merge/rebase conflict, you will need to chose between "our" and "their" version in each file with conflict markers. As shown here, an IDE can help facilitate the visualization and resolution of such conflicts.
I used tortoise git
git tortoise > git diff
Then I manually resolved the git merge conflict by removing or modifying the code I didn’t want.
Then I committed the code and the issues were gone.
I have a merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' in my timeline with a dozen changes since then by someone else.
I can't sync. When I try to revert and git revert --continue, it says can't commit because I have unmerged files. No idea what that means.
I looked at the files in question and there are no conflict there (the git comment blocks).
Also, these filed specifically have not been modified by anyone else.
How do I just force Github to take the folder from my current local folder and just move on?
I tried deleting the repository folder and recloning, but then it saied it can't clone. Took a while just to get it to clone. But still can't sync!
Thanks!
Try stashing your changes and then syncing/merging.
git stash
git pull
git stash pop
This should merge your local from upstream and have your changes which you can commit.
Note: In some cases, this might lead to a conflict depending on your code, but that should not be a big problem to solve.
Also, unmerged means that you have files that are not committed yet. Do a git status and it should show you.
I am working in a team on Selenium WebDriver in Java. For eg. If I and one of my team member are working on the same file. Every time someone commits some changes into the repository and when I pull the code, eclipse shows conflicts even if a new line of code has been added to the file. Is there any way to merge both the codes without this conflict?
Maybe try to do it that way :
git add [your file]
git commit "fix"
git pull origin master
git push origin master
The conflicts may occur because you don't commit your changes before pulling from the repository.
I have set up an SVN repository that currently has the stable code in trunk and a branch on which new development is happening.
I would like to fix bugs on trunk and have the people working on the branch pick up bug fixes by merging from trunk on a regular basis. My problem is that I can't figure out how to access the trunk version from Eclipse when I need to fix bugs, then access the branch when I do new development.
The only thing I can think of is using the SVN Switch utility to swap between trunk and branch. But, this seems very clunky. I tried switching without committing some changes I made to one of the files, and the file was then in a conflicted state. This doesn't seem like the right way to me.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.
You have not access trunk-version from Eclipse, because if you want to have sync-merge from trunk to branch you have to have Working Copy of branch, and ^/trunk will be referenced only on merge (which is Eclipse-specific interface)
The normal way to do this is to use switch. Before beginning work you should do switch to make sure you are on the branch where you want the changes to go when you commit. If you have local changes, it is OK, but when you switch it is just like doing an update. You can get conflicts if SVN needs to make updates to the files you have local modification in.
If you do not have any local modifications or unversioned files, then switch will not create conflicts.
I am using Git to share my code with my team and Eclipse as my IDE. I have installed the EGit plugin for Git functionality. The problem is that I am not sure what the correct steps to sync my local branch with the remote one are (something like: 1. Right click on your repository and team->fetch 2. Pull 3. and so on...).
Currently I know that first I have to fetch (this will update my remote branch) and next I need to pull. Let's say there is a conflict between the remote and local branch; how should I resolve it?
I have read a lot of tutorials on the net, but it seems that my case is too obvious to explain elaborately.
Currently I know that first I have to fetch (this will update my remote branch) next I need to pull
No, you can pull directly: it combines a fetch and a merge.
Any merge conflict that might arise during a pull will be handle like any other merge
If your merge resulted in conflicts (note the red symbols on the file icons), you will have to resolve these manually. Open the conflicting files and scroll to the conflicting changes marked with “<<<<<<<”.
After you are finished the manual part of the merge, you will have to tell Git that the conflicts are resolved. To do so, Add the files and Commit to complete your merge.