From: Scott McPeak <smcpeak@coverity.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git stash while pending merge should not be allowed
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:59:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BA5CD9.7060007@coverity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1u8du5as.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 06/07/13 11:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Scott McPeak <smcpeak@coverity.com> writes:
>
>> I suggest that this problem could easily have been avoided if "git
>> stash" refused to run with a pending merge (present MERGE_HEAD file),
>> since this is crucial repository state that it does not save. This
>> seems similar to what "git cherry-pick" does.
>
> Sounds senslbe. What do we want to see happen in other states, in
> which Git gives control back to the user asking for help before
> moving forward (e.g. am, rebase, cherry-pick, revert)?
If you're asking me, I don't know. My first thought is if there is any
pending state that "stash" doesn't save, stash should refuse to run.
But I don't know know very much about some of those commands.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-07 6:52 git stash while pending merge should not be allowed Scott McPeak
2013-06-07 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 23:59 ` Scott McPeak [this message]
2013-06-14 8:30 ` John Keeping
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