From: Andrew Wong Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:39:43 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge Message-ID: <531E938F.4060602@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 02/26/14 15:53, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - start warning against "reset" (no mode specifier) and "reset --mixed" > when the index is unmerged *and* MERGE_HEAD exists; and then Why do we also want to check if index is unmerged? This situation can happen regardless of having conflicts or not (--no-commit, aborting the editor, etc.). As long as the user is in the middle of a merge (MERGE_HEAD exists), shouldn't they be warned if they used "git reset"?