Re: Is 'merge' in your path?

Len Brown wrote:
> trying to do a merge on my laptop using git as of today,
> but it bombs out.  anybody seen this?
> 
> lenb@toshiba:~/src> git --version
> git version 1.3-rc1.GIT
> 
> lenb@toshiba:~/src/linux-acpi-2.6> /lab/bin/git.update test
> Trying really trivial in-index merge...
> fatal: Merge requires file-level merging

....

> Failed to execute 'merge'. merge(1) is used as the file-level merge tool. Is 
> 'merge' in your path?
> No merge strategy handled the merge.
> lenb@toshiba:~/src/linux-acpi-2.6> which git-merge
> /home/lenb/bin/git-merge
> lenb@toshiba:~/src/linux-acpi-2.6> which git
> /home/lenb/bin/git
> lenb@toshiba:~/src/linux-acpi-2.6>


What does "which merge" tell you? If it turns up blank, you know the 
problem. The merge program is usually found in the rcs package.

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