I tried to pull origin branschName
and got this strange error:
error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi'.
Not committing merge; use 'git commit' to complete the merge.
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name ".git/.MERGE_MSG.swp"
owned by: eladb dated: Tue Aug 20 10:52:03 2013
file name: ~eladb/MyWorkspace/Client/.git/MERGE_MSG
modified: no
user name: eladb host name: Elads-MacBook-Pro-2.local
process ID: 29959 (still running)
While opening file ".git/MERGE_MSG"
dated: Tue Aug 20 10:53:11 2013
NEWER than swap file!
(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r .git/MERGE_MSG"
to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
If you did this already, delete the swap file ".git/.MERGE_MSG.swp"
to avoid this message.
Swap file ".git/.MERGE_MSG.swp" already exists!
[O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (Q)uit, (A)bort:
how to fix this?
Best Answer
It seems that a swap file created by
vi
has been somehow left undeleted.Remove
.git/.MERGE_MSG.swp
and attempt thegit merge
again.