Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20061117220713.GH7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7virhdiwon.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:35:04PM CET, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Unfortunately the only way to know if there will be a file-level
> conflict is to try one, and stashing away the current state just
> in case it conflicted is a performance penalty, so this probably
> should stay as an option just like "-m" to the "checkout".

I think it would be just great if it worked at least for fast-forwarding case; I think this is where it is actually most useful. Cogito tries to support even the three-way case as long as the changes touch different files, but I'm not sure if it was a good idea to begin with.

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