Pulling patches of other people for examination results in conflicts

rubyonrails-core
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Dear all,

I am getting started with contributing to rails. The guide1 says that to examine someone else’s pull request, I should git pull their topic branch into one of my local topic branches. I do following and get a large number of conflicts.

[master]$ git checkout -b testing_patch

[testing_patch]$ git pull some_git_remote remote_topic_branch

From git://github.com/some_git_user/rails

  • branch remote_topc_branch → FETCH_HEAD Auto-merging Gemfile CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in Gemfile Auto-merging RAILS_VERSION CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in RAILS_VERSION Auto-merging README.rdoc CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in README.rdoc Auto-merging Rakefile CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in Rakefile

How do I avoid above?

Thanks