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Git: cherry-pick generates bogus conflicts on removed files

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I have a commit I am trying to cherry pick that removes a number of files. It seems to generate conflicts for those files that have been modified on this branch since the common ancestor. Since they are being removed, I don't care about what changes have been made on this branch, just remove them. Even git cherry-pick -Xtheirs does not help. How can I avoid these conflicts, or accept the deletions? I tried git add -u, but that seems to take my version rather than accept the deletion, and there is no -u switch to git rm.

posted Oct 17, 2013 by Abhay Kulkarni

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Correct.

Without inspecting them, you would not know what you would be losing by blindly resolving to removal, hence we do not auto-resolve "one side removed, the other side changed" to a removal.

That does not need to mean that we should not make it easier for the user to say "resolve these 'one side removed, the other side changed' paths to removal".

"add -u" will be a way to say "Record the changes I made to my working tree files to the index". So presumably

 rm -f those files that the other branch removed
 git add -u

would be one way to do so. Of course, you can also use "git rm" directly, i.e. git rm -f those files that the other branch removed

answer Oct 17, 2013 by Garima Jain
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