Why does git say Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files

Question

When I try to pull in my project directory in the terminal  I see the following error   harsukh harsukh-desktop   Sites branch1  git pull origin master U app config app php U app config database php U app routes php Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files  Please  fix them up in the work tree  and then use  git add rm  lt file gt   as appropriate to mark resolution  or use  git commit -a     Why does git say  Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files   and how can I resolve it

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If you dont want any of your local branch changes i think this is the best approach git clean -df git reset --hard git checkout REMOTE BRANCH NAME git pull origin REMOTE BRANCH NAME

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What is currently happening is  that you have a certain set of files  which you have tried merging earlier  but they threw up merge conflicts  Ideally  if one gets a merge conflict  he should resolve them manually  and commit the changes using git add file name  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot removed merge conflicts quot   Now  another user has updated the files in question on his repository  and has pushed his changes to the common upstream repo  It so happens  that your merge conflicts from  probably  the last commit were not not resolved  so your files are not merged all right  and hence the U unmerged  flag for the files  So now  when you do a git pull  git is throwing up the error  because you have some version of the file  which is not correctly resolved  To resolve this  you will have to resolve the merge conflicts in question  and add and commit the changes  before you can do a git pull  Sample reproduction and resolution of the issue    Note  commands below in format  CUURENT WORKING DIRECTORY   command params  Desktop   cd test  First  let us create the repository structure test   mkdir repo  amp  amp  cd repo  amp  amp  git init  amp  amp  touch file  amp  amp  git add file  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot msg quot  repo   cd     amp  amp  git clone repo repo clone  amp  amp  cd repo clone repo clone   echo  quot text2 quot   gt  gt  file  amp  amp  git add file  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot msg quot   amp  amp  cd    repo repo   echo  quot text1 quot   gt  gt  file  amp  amp  git add file  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot msg quot   amp  amp  cd    repo clone  Now we are in repo clone  and if you do a git pull  it will throw up conflicts repo clone   git pull origin master remote  Counting objects  5  done  remote  Total 3  delta 0   reused 0  delta 0  Unpacking objects  100   3 3   done  From  home anshulgoyal Desktop test test repo    branch            master     - gt  FETCH HEAD    24d5b2e  1a1aa70  master     - gt  origin master Auto-merging file CONFLICT  content   Merge conflict in file Automatic merge failed  fix conflicts and then commit the result   If we ignore the conflicts in the clone  and make more commits in the original repo now  repo clone   cd    repo repo   echo  quot text1 quot   gt  gt  file  amp  amp  git add file  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot msg quot   amp  amp  cd    repo clone  And then we do a git pull  we get repo clone   git pull U   file Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files  Please  fix them up in the work tree  and then use  git add rm  lt file gt   as appropriate to mark resolution  or use  git commit -a    Note that the file now is in an unmerged state and if we do a git status  we can clearly see the same  repo clone   git status On branch master Your branch and  origin master  have diverged  and have 1 and 1 different commit each  respectively     use  quot git pull quot  to merge the remote branch into yours   You have unmerged paths     fix conflicts and run  quot git commit quot    Unmerged paths     use  quot git add  lt file gt     quot  to mark resolution           both modified       file  So  to resolve this  we first need to resolve the merge conflict we ignored earlier repo clone   vi file  and set its contents to text2 text1 text1  and then add it and commit the changes repo clone   git add file  amp  amp  git commit -m  quot resolved merge conflicts quot   master 39c3ba1  resolved merge conflicts

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If you want to pull down a remote branch to run locally  say for reviewing or testing purposes   and when you   git pull you get local merge conflicts     git checkout REMOTE-BRANCH   git pull   you get local merge conflicts    git reset --hard HEAD  discards local conflicts  and resets to remote branch HEAD    git pull  now get remote branch updates without local conflicts

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You are attempting to add one more new commits into your local branch while your working directory is not clean   As a result  Git is refusing to do the pull   Consider the following diagrams to better visualize the scenario      remote  A  lt - B  lt - C  lt - D    local   A  lt - B       indicates that you have several files which have been modified but not committed     There are two options for dealing with this situation   You can either discard the changes in your files  or retain them   Option one  Throw away the changes  You can either use git checkout for each unmerged file  or you can use git reset --hard HEAD to reset all files in your branch to HEAD   By the way  HEAD in your local branch is B  without an asterisk   If you choose this option  the diagram becomes      remote  A  lt - B  lt - C  lt - D    local  A  lt - B   Now when you pull  you can fast-forward your branch with the changes from master   After pulling  you branch would look like master      local  A  lt - B  lt - C  lt - D   Option two  Retain the changes  If you want to keep the changes  you will first want to resolve any merge conflicts in each of the files   You can open each file in your IDE and look for the following symbols       lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  HEAD       your version of the code                  the remote s version of the code              Git is presenting you with two versions of code   The code contained within the HEAD markers is the version from your current local branch   The other version is what is coming from the remote   Once you have chosen a version of the code  and removed the other code along with the markers   you can add each file to your staging area by typing git add   The final step is to commit your result by typing git commit -m  with an appropriate message   At this point  our diagram looks like this      remote  A  lt - B  lt - C  lt - D    local  A  lt - B  lt - C    Here I have labelled the commit we just made as C  because it is different from the commit C on the remote   Now  if you try to pull you will get a non-fast forward error   Git cannot play the changes in remote on your branch  because both your branch and the remote have diverged from the common ancestor commit B   At this point  if you want to pull you can either do another git merge  or git rebase your branch on the remote   Getting a mastery of Git requires being able to understand and manipulate uni-directional linked lists   I hope this explanation will get you thinking in the right direction about using Git

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Just run this command   git reset --hard

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When a merge conflict occurs   you can open individual file  You will get    lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  or          symbols  These refer to your changes and the changes present on remote  You can manually edit the part that is requires   after that save the file and then do   git add   The merge conflicts will be resolved

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You have some files locally that need to be merged before you can pull  You could checkout the files and then pull to overwrite your local files   git checkout app config app php app config database php app routes php git pull origin master

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Steps to follow     step-1   git reset --hard HEAD   if you want to reset it to head  step-2   git checkout Master  step-3   git branch -D  lt branch Name gt   Remote Branch name where you want to get pull   step-4   git checkout  lt branch name gt  step-5   git pull   now you will not get any error    Thanks  Sarbasish

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Theres a simple solution to it  But for that you will first need to learn the following   vimdiff   To remove conficts  you can use  git mergetool   The above command basically opens local file  mixed file  remote file  3 files in total   for each conflicted file  The local  amp  remote files are just for your reference  and using them you can choose what to include  or not  in the mixed file  And just save and quit the file

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If you dont want to merge the changes and still want to update your local then run   git reset --hard HEAD     This will reset your local with HEAD and then pull your remote using git pull   If you ve already committed your merge locally  but haven t pushed to remote yet   and want to revert it as well   git reset --hard HEAD 1

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There was same issue with me In my case  steps are as below-   Removed all file which was being start with U  unmerged  symbol  as-      U   project app pages file1 file ts U   project www assets file1 file-name html    Pull code from master         git pull origin master    Checked for status        git status   Here is the message which It appeared- and have 2 and 1 different commit each  respectively     use  git pull  to merge the remote branch into yours  You have unmerged paths     fix conflicts and run  git commit      Unmerged paths     use  git add      to mark resolution   both modified    project app pages file1 file ts both modified    project www assets file1 file-name html    Added all new changes -           git add project app pages file1 file ts project www assets file1 file-name html    Commit changes on head-       git commit -am  resolved conflict of the app      Pushed the code -        git push origin master   Which turn may issue resolved with this image -

[git] Why does git say "Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files"?

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