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  • Can't Update from Git

    From Tom Moore@VERT to All on Sat Jan 4 20:52:12 2025
    Hi,
    Went to update my system this evening and this is what I got when running the get pull command.

    hint: You have divergent branches and need to specify how to reconcile them. hint: You can do so by running one of the following commands sometime before hint: your next pull:
    hint:
    hint: git config pull.rebase false # merge
    hint: git config pull.rebase true # rebase
    hint: git config pull.ff only # fast-forward only
    hint:
    hint: You can replace "git config" with "git config --global" to set a default hint: preference for all repositories. You can also pass --rebase, --no-rebase, hint: or --ff-only on the command line to override the configured default per hint: invocation.
    fatal: Need to specify how to reconcile divergent branches.

    Please advise where I should go from here.

    Tom
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Tom Moore on Sat Jan 4 18:22:54 2025
    Re: Can't Update from Git
    By: Tom Moore to All on Sat Jan 04 2025 08:52 pm

    Hi,
    Went to update my system this evening and this is what I got when running the get pull command.

    hint: You have divergent branches and need to specify how to reconcile them. hint: You can do so by running one of the following commands sometime before hint: your next pull:
    hint:
    hint: git config pull.rebase false # merge
    hint: git config pull.rebase true # rebase
    hint: git config pull.ff only # fast-forward only
    hint:
    hint: You can replace "git config" with "git config --global" to set a default hint: preference for all repositories. You can also pass --rebase, --no-rebase, hint: or --ff-only on the command line to override the configured default per hint: invocation.
    fatal: Need to specify how to reconcile divergent branches.

    Please advise where I should go from here.

    I recommend: git config pull.rebase true
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  • From Tom Moore@VERT to Digital Man on Sat Jan 4 21:46:11 2025
    I recommend: git config pull.rebase true

    Hi,
    Ran the command you suggested and got the following:
    error: cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes.
    error: Please commit or stash them

    Tom
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  • From deon@VERT/ALTERANT to Tom Moore on Sun Jan 5 14:57:07 2025
    Re: Can't Update from Git
    By: Tom Moore to Digital Man on Sat Jan 04 2025 09:46 pm

    Howdy,

    Ran the command you suggested and got the following:
    error: cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes.
    error: Please commit or stash them

    Does "git pull --autostash" fix it for you?


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Tom Moore on Sat Jan 4 20:51:31 2025
    Re: Can't Update from Git
    By: Tom Moore to Digital Man on Sat Jan 04 2025 09:46 pm

    I recommend: git config pull.rebase true

    Hi,
    Ran the command you suggested and got the following:
    error: cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes.
    error: Please commit or stash them

    So add --autostash to your pull command-line, or define/use an "up" alias, as I do:

    https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:git#up_alias

    It might be important to know what files you have changed, 'git status' will report that. And then if they're unexpectedly changed, you can 'git checkout' the file(s) to overwrite with the version(s) in the repo. But knowing which files and why they were changed can be important.
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