jdx/mise · error

sync paused: resolve all

Error message

sync paused: resolve all {} conflict(s) before sharing resumes; `mise dot pull --take-remote-all` chooses the repository's version for every conflict at once, and `mise dot status` says whether any path still needs a different fix

What it means

An interactive, non-dry-run `mise dot pull` was run with no path-specific resolution flags while conflicts still exist. Sharing is paused until conflicts are resolved, so the command fails and points to `--take-remote-all` as the blanket resolver and `mise dot status` for inspecting remaining conflicts.

Solutions

  1. Decide per-path: `mise dot pull --take-remote <path>` or `--keep-local <path>` (after `mise dot save <path>` if keeping local).
  2. Use `mise dot pull --take-remote-all` to accept the repository's version for every conflict at once.
  3. Inspect `mise dot status` to see each conflict and what fix it needs.

Example fix

before: mise dot pull (sync paused: 2 conflicts) | after: mise dot pull --take-remote-all, or per path: mise dot pull --take-remote ~/.gitconfig
Defensive patterns

Strategy: try-catch

Validate before calling

mise dot status  # only pull with no flags when no conflicts remain

Try / catch

mise dot pull || mise dot pull --take-remote-all  # or fail fast in scripts and resolve explicitly

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: `mise dot pull` with `take_remote` and `keep_local` both empty while `status.conflicts` is non-empty, not a dry run, not an automatic pass — any conflicted path without an explicit or blanket decision reaches this bail.

Common situations: User runs plain `mise dot pull` after another machine changed shared dotfiles; a scripted pull lacking resolution flags; conflicts newly introduced by an upstream commit.

Understand the failure class

Background: Conflicting config options: "cannot be used together" — configuration validation errors across open-source libraries — this error's family across 162 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of jdx/mise@533346cc37 (2026-09-17). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b05a7b083df3a024. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at src/system/history/sync/apply.rs:353

        // succeeded while one is still held -- whatever it decided alongside.
        // Those decisions are recorded above; naming the rest is what is left.
        if !blanket_held.is_empty() {
            if !req.dry_run && !req.automatic {
                bail!(
                    "sync paused: resolve all {count} conflict(s) before sharing resumes; a blanket choice cannot decide them all: {held}. Fix each of those paths, then pull again",
                    count = status.conflicts.len(),
                    held = blanket_held.join("; "),
                );
            }
            // A preview and a background pass both carry on, so this is the
            // only chance either gets to say why a path went undecided.
            warn!(
                "a blanket choice cannot decide {held}",
                held = blanket_held.join("; "),
            );
        }
        if take_remote.is_empty() && keep_local.is_empty() && !req.dry_run && !req.automatic {
            bail!(
                "sync paused: resolve all {} conflict(s) before sharing resumes; `mise dot pull --take-remote-all` chooses the repository's version for every conflict at once, and `mise dot status` says whether any path still needs a different fix",
                status.conflicts.len()
            );
        }
        info!(
            "sync paused: {} conflict(s) remain; no files applied or published",
            status.conflicts.len()
        );
        return Ok(ApplyOutcome {
            held: status.conflicts.len(),
            ..Default::default()
        });
    }

    // Only after all version-bound choices are valid may they replace Git's
    // conflict objects in the complete tree. Use the committed ciphertext,
    // never the decrypted comparison objects held by the resolution record.
    if let Some(tree) = &inventory_tree {

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