git pull origin develop fails when updating the Magento software
Details
One of the steps to updating the Magento 2 software is to update your local repository by running:
git pull origin develop
The following error might display:
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
<list of files>
To find which files are subject to being overwritten, either read the message or enter:
git status
The next section discusses suggested solutions.
Suggested solutions
Your solution depends on whether or not you intentionally modified files in the Magento 2 file system. See one of the following sections for more information.
You intentionally modified files
Manually resolve the conflicts in the usual way. If you鈥檙e not sure what to do, consult GitHub help.
You didn鈥檛 intentionally modify any files
Try any of the following:
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If you鈥檙e certain you didn鈥檛 modify any files and you don鈥檛 mind removing or overwriting the changes in the Magento file system, enter:
git reset --hard HEAD && git pull origin developAfter that, continue where you left off with your Magento 2 update.
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It鈥檚 possible that a GitHub configuration setting can prevent these errors in the future. By default, GitHub stores content using the operating system-default line ending characters. If you鈥檙e using Linux but another collaborator committed a change using Windows, GitHub converts the Windows line endings to Linux when you clone or pull. This gives the appearance of a change to files when in fact, no change was made.
To configure GitHub to ignore line endings, enter the following command in your Git client:
git config --system core.autocrlf falseIf you use Windows, enter:
git config --system core.eol LFMagento does not recommend or endorse any particular GitHub configuration settings. The preceding are suggestions only. For more information, consult the GitHub help.
Continue where you left off with your Magento 2 update.
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