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+From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nmbug: Translate to Python\r
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+David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> writes:\r
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+> I did notice that merging was noticably noisier than I remembered. \r
+>\r
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+Hmm. I just noticed hit another problem with merge. I have a local\r
+commit that deletes a couple tags; when I attempt to merge I get\r
+complaints about local changes to files. \r
+\r
+error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:\r
+ tags/1406859003-11561-2-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu/needs-review\r
+ tags/1406859003-11561-3-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu/needs-review\r
+Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.\r
+Aborting\r
+Traceback (most recent call last):\r
+ File "/home/bremner/config/scripts/nmbug", line 766, in <module>\r
+ args.func(**kwargs)\r
+ File "/home/bremner/config/scripts/nmbug", line 437, in merge\r
+ wait=True)\r
+ File "/home/bremner/config/scripts/nmbug", line 210, in _git\r
+ return _spawn(args=args, **kwargs)\r
+ File "/home/bremner/config/scripts/nmbug", line 193, in _spawn\r
+ args=args, status=status, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr)\r
+__main__.SubprocessError: ['git', '--git-dir', '/home/bremner/.nmbug',\r
+ 'merge', '@{upstream}'] exited with 128\r
+\r
+Calling the perl version of nmbug successfully creates a little \r
+diamond merge\r
+\r