[Gnu-arch-users] Re: ?M in star-merge output

[Miles Bader]

Masatake YAMATO <address@hidden> writes:
> When I run star-merge, I found a line started with ?M.
> What does `?M' stand for?

It means the changeset contained a change to a file-id that doesn't
exist in the tree.

It places .patch files for such failed changes underneath a directory
called "++mumble-something" in the tree root.

-miles
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