[Phpmyadmin-devel] committing a patch to git

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Yesterday, I tried to commit a patch to the QA_3_3 branch and then merge it with master. Everything went well until I had to merge my changes in the QA_3_3 branch to master. This is what I did : git pull (to sync with current changes in git) git checkout QA_3_3 (made changes to main.php and ChangeLog) git commit -a -m "message" so far no problems, but then git checkout master git merge QA_3_3 and then I got this : $ git merge QA_3_3 Auto-merging ChangeLog CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in ChangeLog Auto-merging Documentation.html Auto-merging libraries/config.default.php Auto-merging main.php Auto-merging tbl_change.php CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in tbl_change.php Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. I understand the automerge of Documentation.html and libraries/config.default.php. They are probably different between branches. I understand why merging ChangeLog had difficulties, because I changed something there. I can imagine why main.php (the file I changed) merged without problem, probably because that file was previously unchanged, so the merge was no problem. But what I don't understand is why the tbl_change.php caused problems. I didn't touch that file, so as far as I'm concerned, that file should have been correctly merged the previous time (commit before me). After manualy changing the tbl_change.php and ChangeLog file, I did this : git add ChangeLog git add tbl_change.php (because git status instructed me to) and then git commit git push This resulted in these two commits : Changed link to git repository on main page Merge branch 'QA_3_3' It then turned out I forgot to solve two conflicts in tbl_change.php (indicated by >>>>>> HEAD and <<<<<< QA_3_3). I changed this file and commited again : fix mistake in merge Merge branch 'master' of ssh://phpmyadmin.git.sourcefor... (the last commit happened automaticaly when I did a git pull, before git push, because Marc had pushed a commit in the meanwhile) So, I think everything in git is as it should be now. But I guess I made some mistakes, or there must be a way to avoid these kind of problems. (4 commits to change 2 lines of code seems a bit too much. ;) ) Everything went well until the merge part, so I wonder how you guys do it. Is it possible to only merge the changes in the last commit, and ignore all other files? Thanks for the help. Kind regards, Dieter