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Author: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] (no subject)
Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> writes:
> Running "git pull" complains with the following message:
>
> edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/netman$ git pull
> Updating 06507b0..ddcd272
> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
>     debian/README.Debian
>     debian/netman-gui.install


[...]

> Any idea how I can proceed?


This depends on what you want to do. If you want to keep your local
changes, you need to commit them before the pull. Committing something
into git is a 2-stage process. First, the modified files need to be
'added' to the set of files to be committed, followed by committing
them. You could do a summary commit,

git commit -m 'recent work' -a

This would add both modified files and afterwards commit them using
'recent work' as commit message. But using something more descriptive is
a better idea. In case you're unsure what was changed, git diff can be
used to display the changes. You can execute that either as

git diff

to get a listing of all changes or with an additional filename argument.
Individual files can then be committed with

git commit -m '<description>' -a /path/to/file

(the -a means 'add before committing so a separate git add ... isn't
needed).

If you want to discard your changes, you can do so file-by-file with

git checkout /path/to/file

or summarily with

git reset --hard