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[PATCH 4/4] pull: do not clobber untracked files on initial pull

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 25, 2011, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20110325181331.GD14898@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20110325180644.GA30838@sigill.intra.peff.net>

For a pull into an unborn branch, we do not use "git merge" at all. Instead, we call read-tree directly. However, we used the --reset parameter instead of "-m", which turns off the safety features.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
This blames all the way back to d09e79c (git-pull: allow pulling into an
empty repository, 2006-11-16) by Linus. I couldn't think of a good
reason to use "--reset" instead of "-m".
 git-pull.sh     |    2 +-
 t/t5520-pull.sh |   11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
index 63b063a..e31226b 100755
--- a/git-pull.sh
+++ b/git-pull.sh
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ esac
 if test -z "$orig_head"
 then
 	git update-ref -m "initial pull" HEAD $merge_head "$curr_head" &&
-	git read-tree --reset -u HEAD || exit 1
+	git read-tree -m -u HEAD || exit 1
 	exit
 fi
 
diff --git a/t/t5520-pull.sh b/t/t5520-pull.sh
index 0470a81..0e5eb67 100755
--- a/t/t5520-pull.sh
+++ b/t/t5520-pull.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ test_expect_success 'pulling into void using master:master' '
 	test_cmp file cloned-uho/file
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'pulling into void does not overwrite untracked files' '
+	git init cloned-untracked &&
+	(
+		cd cloned-untracked &&
+		echo untracked >file &&
+		test_must_fail git pull .. master &&
+		echo untracked >expect &&
+		test_cmp expect file
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'test . as a remote' '
 
 	git branch copy master &&
-- 
1.7.4.33.gb8855.dirty
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  5. 1/4 t7607: mark known breakage in test 11 as fixedJeff King, Mar 25, 2011
  6. 2/4 t7607: clean up stray untracked fileJeff King, Mar 25, 2011
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  8. 4/4 pull: do not clobber untracked files on initial pullJeff King, Mar 25, 2011

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