From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:43:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Optionally check for uncommitted changes before switching branches.
Message-ID: <20061207194358.GF12143@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vu007sdhp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Git shouldn't cause the user to make mistakes when it can help to
> > prevent them.  So now users may set checkout.requireCleanDirectory
> > to true in their config file to have git-checkout verify the working
> > directory is clean before switching branches.
[...snip...]
> People with this new configuration set and has to override it
> with a command line switch will lose this ability if you
> overload that on '-m'.

Yes.  That's a problem with this patch.

What about when this option is enabled then -m means do what we
did before, and -m -m (or -mm, or -m2) does what -m does when the
option is false?

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