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.
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.
I have a repo on GitHub here.
I have pushed to this repo from two different machines, so now one machine is current and another has outdated code. Right now, I am on the machine with outdated code, and I want to pull in the master/HEAD/whatever from GitHub.
And then I get to stare at this:
I do not want to do something stupid like delete the project from Eclipse and then pull in all the code from GitHub.
Can someone please help me merge/synchronize the projects? This is as simple as it sounds.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when I click "Pull" on the above menu:
Would someone also explain what the difference is between Pull, Merge, Fetch and Synchronize?
eGit doesn't know, which remote branch you want to pull from.
If you create your local branch based on a remote tracking branch, then the key is generated automatically. Otherwise you have to create it yourself:
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
branch.master.remote=origin
where master stands for the branchname, in the key it's your local branch, in the value it's the branch in the remote repository. Place that in the repository-specific configuration file %repositorypath%\.git\config
As for the terms:
merge: join two or more development histories together
fetch: download objects and refs from another repository
pull: fetch from and merge with another repository or local branch
sync: allows you to compare 2 branches
In general, I urge you to read eGit user guide, where you can get even better understanding of Git and eGit. It can be found at http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide
I often see the below errors on doing git pull on totally untouched files which I am NOT working on.
Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files
It is clear the conflicted files have changed in the git repo. But I don't understand why git pull cannot over-write on these untouched files - which I've not touched?
What can I or my team do to avoid getting these errors?
Edited -
Along with the solution I want to understand why the errors are coming.
Just to make clear, the other team members are working on other files (say xyz). And I am working on a separate set of files having no dependency on xyz files. So if I pull the repo changes after a long time with no changes from my side in xyz, why the conflicts in those files?
use git diff to see problem files
look at this git cheat shets for usefull commands
http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/git-cheat-sheet.pdf
http://jan-krueger.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet-v2-back.svg
There are some tips from my own experience. i'm not sure whether they're 100% corerect)
Split work with your team on paralel threads. Try not to work in the same files.
Try to avoid situations when 2 or more persons are adding new files simalteniously. When one added new files others should make pull as soon as possible
the last but not least - make git push very often. this will keep your project git up to date
Since git pull does not pull individual files, it's git merge phase will stop for manual correction of any merge conflicts. git merge and/or git pull (and by nature of the fact that git pull is essentially git fetch followed by git merge) is an all-or-nothing operation - you either successfully merge the changes introduced on both (or all) of the branches you are merging together, or you don't merge any of them. The catch in that is when conflicts arise that must be manually resolved - but in that situation, you are in an in-between state, having neither completed and committed the merge nor rolled it back to your previous state.
The message you are getting implies that you have previously done a git pull or a git merge, which stopped in the middle, requesting that you manually resolve some conflicts, which you have not yet done, but have rather continued on doing other stuff, and are now trying to do another git pull / git merge without ever having completed the first one.
Take a look at git status, and follow the suggested directions for either resolving your in-progress merge issues or resetting back to a not-in-the-middle-of-a-merge state.
Currently am working with Git Repo and i have a fellow team mate also ,after he commit to the remote repo and i get all the changes . I have couple of questions
When i merge the code with Changes then the changed file in my work space is marked as staged, do i need to commit to local repo?
I have a read lot of documentation and still am confused with the best way of sync,
Currently i do following steps:
Go to Team->Sync Workspace-> Fetch From Upstream->Mege . Please correct if am wrong
Note, the Egit manual includes a "pull" operation which would do the fetch+merge in one operation.
Right-click on a project in the Package Explorer and select Team > Pull or right-click on a repository in the Git Repositories view and select Pull to pull new changes from the upstream branch your local branch is tracking.
Doing a fetch + merge (as in Egit Merging) will result in a merge commit unless there is a conflict.
Real merge: When neither of the conditions above apply egit triggers a merge of the commits. There are two possible outcomes:
If no conflicts occur the current branch will point to a newly created merge commit;
if conflicts occur the conflicting files will be marked with label decorators (see Resolving a merge conflict for further actions in case of merge conflicts).
You should see staged changes only in the second case (merge conflict to resolve), or you would see stage changes because you previously added to the index files which are not part of the merge (they remain staged until you commit them)