During a Git merge, I encounter the following error message:
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories Error redoing merge
How can I fix this error and complete the merge?
Git is very flexible and allows us to do things that may not be intuitive for a source control program, such as creating branches in the same repository that have entirely different contents and commit histories. This has some practical uses, such as the gh-pages
branch used to publish websites on GitHub Pages.
However, if we attempt to merge two branches without a common base commit, we will encounter this error, which was introduced in Git 2.9.0 to prevent accidental merges of this type, as they are quite unusual.
If this error occurs during a merge that is not intended to combine two separate codebases, there may be a problem with our local Git repository. Reclone the remote version of the repository in a different directory and migrate any local changes there before attempting the merge again.
If we are attempting to combine two separate codebases, we must pass the flag --allow-unrelated-histories
to git merge
:
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories
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