How to resolve a conflict with git-svn?

Question

What is the best way to resolve a conflict when doing a "git svn rebase", and the git branch you are on becomes "(no-branch)"?

Answer 1

You can use git mergetool to view and edit the conflicts in the usual fashion. Once you are sure the conflicts are resolved do git rebase --continue to continue the rebase, or if you don't want to include that revision do git rebase --skip

Answer 2

After some googling I found a good answer on Larry's blog (Thanks Larry):

While doing a "git svn rebase", if you have merge conflicts here are some things to remember:

• While doing a rebase, if anything bad happens, you end up on a "(no-branch)" branch.
• When doing a "git status", you'll see a ".dotest" file in your working directory. Just ignore it.
• If you want to bail, do a "git rebase --abort". (Note there is no "git svn rebase --abort".)
• Fix the merge conflict file manually, then do a "git add [file]".
• Next do a "git rebase --continue". (Note there's no "svn" version of this either.)
• If it complains about "did you forget to call 'git add'?", then evidently your edit turned the conflict into a no-op change. Do a "git rebase --skip" to skip it. (Very weird, but true.)
• Rinse and repeat until the lather is gone, your scalp silky smooth, and the rebase is complete. At any time you can "git rebase --abort" to bail.

Answer 3

Here is detailed description git rebase