Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] reset: add option "--merge-safe" to "git reset"

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
>> (2) The intended use-case of --merge-safe is to point the branch head to a
>> different commit, but to carry the changes that currently are in the index
>> and wd over to the new commit, similar to checkout --merge.

This is actually an operation that I need quite often, but I can do it
only by way of git stash.

Clarification: I did not say that I actually meant to carry *only* the
index and wd changes to the new commit. That is, the operation I have in
mind can roughly be done in terms of

  $ git stash
  $ git reset --hard $target
  $ git stash pop

> I have _no_ idea what the intended use-case of --merge-safe is, and that
> was why I asked Christian for clarification in the previous round.  The
> answer was still not clear enough so I pointed out --merge-safe could be
> still doing a wrong thing even in _his_ use-case.

Reading Christian in 200909170554.49416.chriscool@tuxfamily.org, I think
this *is* his use-case? Christian?

-- Hannes