Re: VC mode and git

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>   >  What he did became clear, even to me, after he showed the information
>   >  we requested.
>
> It did?  It's not clear to me.  I still haven't seen an explanation of
> how he ended up with a ton of modified files that he didn't touch, or
> how he's going to get past that safely.

Then you must have been missing some messages. Short summary of such an 
explanation: They are the result of an incomplete merge operation, and 
all come from origin/master at the time of his pull. This may not be the 
*correct* explanation, but it is a *possible* explanation.

> Nobody has mentioned him
> doing a diff against a public reference commit that *should* be where
> he started, in order to confirm that when he pushes he can succeed
> (preferably without making the DAG too ugly, as well).

I have mentioned this. It is true that on this list, if not in the world 
at large, I am a nobody, but you don't have to rub it in.

– Harald