Re: git pull suggestion

[Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 11, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
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> The other answer would initially appear a bit sad, but after you think
> about it, it would turn into an enlightenment, especially for people whose
> brains have rotten from years and years of CVS/SVN use.

My brain was rotten even _before_ CVS/SVN use, so you can picture
the damage.

Now, thank you very much for taking the time to explain everything. I had
a vague understanding but now things are clearer.

I think that there was a document back in the day, that was giving a
relationship between CVS/SVN commands and git. A posteriori, that
document did more harm than good: it made you believe that you could
use git as CVS/SVN. In practice, that is very difficult and error prone.

> Now, the above inevitably solicits "then why doesn't 'pull' automatically
> stash and then unstash?" question.  I think the answer is obvious if you
> think about it, and it is getting late, so I'll leave that as an exercise
> to the readers but will leave a pictorial hint.

Before I start thinking I already have a question (which says a lot about
my thinking capacity): can't git detect this  problematic case ? My feeling
is that an automatic stash/unstash will  work in most cases and could be
triggered by a --dirty flag.

  -- aghiles