Re: git pull error w/ master

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2020.02.14 12:05, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> trying tu run “git pull” for master ejects with an error:
>
> <snip>
> albrecht@deneb:~/Balsa/git/balsa-master$ LANG=C git pull
> error: The following untracked working tree files would be  
> overwritten by merge:
>         config.guess
>         config.sub
>         m4/libtool.m4
> Please move or remove them before you merge.
> Aborting
> </snip>
>
> These files are typically created by running autogen.sh, and are  
> usually not included in git.  Or did I miss something?
Hello Albrecht,

I just tried a git pull and had no problems.  I do notice, however,  
that all three files have commits from yesterday:

Author: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg fifthhorseman net>
Date:   Thu Feb 13 15:36:00 2020 -0500
    Use https when referring to www.gnu.org

It looks like that might be part of a larger effort to change http: to  
https: everywhere.  I've seen the same sort of edit in lots of KDE  
repositories.

My guess would be to either delete them or do "git checkout --  
filename" on each of them.
I may not have had them present, since I use meson instead of configure.

Jack