Git Pull is Not Possible Unmerged Files

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I ve read all of the similar questions on this  it seems that none of the following have worked   Delete offending files git reset --hard HEAD git stash git pull   Nearly every combination  stashing changes and pulling from repository  results in unmergable files  I d like to discard all local changes and just use the remote  but I cannot clone again  bandwidth and internet usage limitations with the developer trying to do this   How do I do this    Just tried   git stash git pull   Also did not work   More Info  There is one local commit  and the upstream has a commit as well  I ve thus tried git pull --rebase but it s still not working properly    That gives me errors -  exiting because of an unresolved conflict   If I do git stash  git reset --hard HEAD  git pull --rebase  I get the error  pull is not possible  unmerged changes

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Solved  using the following command set   git reset --hard git pull --rebase git rebase --skip git pull   The trick is to rebase the changes    We had some trouble rebasing one trivial commit  and so we simply skipped it using git rebase --skip  after having copied the files

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Say the remote is origin and the branch is master  and say you already have master checked out  might try the following   git fetch origin git reset --hard origin master   This basically just takes the current branch and points it to the HEAD of the remote branch   WARNING  As stated in the comments  this will throw away your local changes and overwrite with whatever is on the origin   Or you can use the plumbing commands to do essentially the same   git fetch  lt remote gt  git update-ref refs heads  lt branch gt    git rev-parse  lt remote gt   lt branch gt   git reset --hard   EDIT  I d like to briefly explain why this works   The  git folder can hold the commits for any number of repositories  Since the commit hash is actually a verification method for the contents of the commit  and not just a randomly generated value  it is used to match commit sets between repositories   A branch is just a named pointer to a given hash  Here s an example set     find  git refs -type f  git refs tags v3 8  git refs heads master  git refs remotes origin HEAD  git refs remotes origin master   Each of these files contains a hash pointing to a commit     cat  git refs remotes origin master d895cb1af15c04c522a25c79cc429076987c089b   These are all for the internal git storage mechanism  and work independently of the working directory  By doing the following   git reset --hard origin master   git will point the current branch at the same hash value that origin master points to  Then it forcefully changes the working directory to match the file structure contents at that hash   To see this at work go ahead and try out the following   git checkout -b test-branch   see current commit and diff by the following git show HEAD   now point to another location git reset --hard  lt remote gt   lt branch gt    see the changes again git show HEAD

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Ryan Stewart s answer was almost there  In the case where you actually don t want to delete your local changes  there s a workflow you can use to merge    Run git status  It will give you a list of unmerged files  Merge them  by hand  etc   Run git commit   Git will commit just the merges into a new commit   In my case  I had additional added files on disk  which weren t lumped into that commit    Git then considers the merge successful and allows you to move forward

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There is a solution even if you don t want to remove your local changes  Just fix the unmerged files  by git add or git remove   Then do git pull

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I ve had luck with   git checkout -f  lt branch gt    in a similar situation   http   www kernel org pub  software scm git docs git-checkout html  Undo delete in GIT

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I got solved with git remove the unmerged file locally     git rm  lt the unmerged file name gt    git reset --hard   git pull --rebase   git rebase --skip   git pull Already up-to-date    When I send git commit afterward     git commit   -m  my send commit  On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with  origin master   nothing to commit  working directory clean

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If you ever happen to get this issue after running a git fetch and then git is not allowing you to run git pull because of a merge conflict  both modified   unmerged files  and to make you more frustrated  it won t show you any conflict markers in the file since it s not yet merged   If you do not wish to lose your work  you can do the following   stage the file     git add filename   then stash the local changes     git stash   pull and update your working directory    git pull   restore your local modified file  git will automatically merge if it can  otherwise resolve it     git stash pop   Hope it will help

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Assuming you want to throw away any changes you have  first check the output of git status  For any file that says  unmerged  next to it  run git add  lt unmerged file gt   Then follow up with git reset --hard  That will git rid of any local changes except for untracked files

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