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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Thomas Rast" <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	"Miklos Vajna" <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: warn against merging in a dirty tree
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:06:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vprn57y45.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130809151653w27d7876fp35e0967d597ae2a9@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:53:07 -0400")

"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> But how do you abort a *failed* merge in a situation like Linus's
> example?  "git reset --hard HEAD" would destroy the unstaged Makefile
> change.

"All of your work tree changes are easily reproducible" implies you do not
mind losing them, Ok?

Also "git reset HEAD" (that is, without --hard) would not touch the work
tree changes.  You need to remove the work-tree cruft left by new files
yourself, if you go this route, though.  New files are rare enough so it
may be more appropriate (and you can "git clean -n $that_subdirectory" to
enumerate them).

It all depends on your workflow.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-16  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-15 22:48 [IRC/patches] Failed octopus merge does not clean up Thomas Rast
2008-09-15 22:49 ` [PATCH] Add test that checks octopus merge cleanup Thomas Rast
2008-09-15 22:49   ` [PATCH] Documentation: warn against merging in a dirty tree Thomas Rast
2008-09-15 23:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-15 23:53       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-09-16  0:06         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-09-18 15:15         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-18 18:18           ` Avery Pennarun
2008-09-19 20:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-15 23:36 ` [IRC/patches] Failed octopus merge does not clean up Junio C Hamano
2008-09-15 23:47   ` Thomas Rast
2008-09-16  0:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-16 22:53     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-17  6:45       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-17  8:11         ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-17 15:59           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-17 16:40             ` Andreas Ericsson

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