pulling the root commit overwrites untracked files without warning (1.7.2.3)

[Gert Palok <gert@planc.ee>]

Hi

On 1.7.2.3, pulling the root commit overwrites untracked files

Minimal working example:
$ git init wc1
$ cd wc1
$ echo a > a
$ git add a
$ git commit -m "added a"
$ mkdir ../wc2
$ cd ../wc2
$ echo b > a
$ git init
$ git remote add origin ../wc1
$ git pull origin master
$ # expected: error: Untracked working tree file 'a' would be
overwritten by merge.  Aborting
$ # actual: no error
$ cat a
$ # expected: b
$ # actual: a

An excerpt from the session:
gert@planc ~/test/wc2 git[master?]
768$ git pull origin master
remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
From ../wc1
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
gert@planc ~/test/wc2 git[master]
769$ cat a
a

-- 
Gert Palok