Question

I’m trying to rebase ‘dev’ to catch up to ‘master’ branch.

$ git checkout dev 
$ git rebase master 
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Applying: Corrected compilation problems that came from conversion from SVN.
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
M       src/com/....
<stdin>:125: trailing whitespace.
/**
<stdin>:126: trailing whitespace.
 *
<stdin>:127: trailing whitespace.
 */
<stdin>:128: trailing whitespace.
package com....
<stdin>:129: trailing whitespace.

warning: squelched 117 whitespace errors
warning: 122 lines add whitespace errors.
Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
Auto-merging src/com/....
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/com/...
Failed to merge in the changes.
Patch failed at 0001 Corrected compilation problems that came from conversion from SVN.

When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip".
To check out the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort".

$ vi src/com/.....   { fixed the merge issue on one file } 
$ git add -A . 
$ git rebase --continue 
src/com/....: needs merge
You must edit all merge conflicts and then
mark them as resolved using git add
$ vi src/com....      { verified, no >>> or <<< left, no merge markers } 
$ git rebase --continue 
Applying: Corrected compilation problems that came from conversion from SVN.
No changes - did you forget to use 'git add'?
If there is nothing left to stage, chances are that something else
already introduced the same changes; you might want to skip this patch.

When you have resolved this problem run "git rebase --continue".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git rebase --skip".
To check out the original branch and stop rebasing run "git rebase --abort".

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There are a couple situations where I’ve seen rebase get stuck. One is if the changes become null (a commit has changes that were already made previously in the rebase) in which case you may have to use git rebase --skip.

It’s pretty easy to tell. If you do git status it should show no changes. If so just skip it. If that isn’t the case please post a copy of git status and I can try to help further.