From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:36:28 GMT
Subject: Re: pull into dirty working tree
Message-ID: <18032.3836.710438.73912@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <1HyUO6-04z4yG0@fwd28.aul.t-online.de>

On Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 17:03:58 (+0200) MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de writes:
>Hi,
>
>why don't they just do a simple 
>git commit -a
>of their work before pulling?

Because they are basically playing with some code and don't want to
commit it.

>That's different to cvs! Committing only affects the cloned repository.

Yup, we realize that.

>I think one of the biggest advantages of git is the concept of everyone
>working on a clone. So developers are not prevented from actually using
>revision control just because they are afraid of disturbing others. They
>don't until they e.g. push!

Right, but they just want updates to their working tree, as they could
do under CVS, without issuing five (or even one) other commands.


Bill