From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 21:45:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pull: merge into unborn by fast-forwarding from empty tree Message-ID: <7v7ghoqwwv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130620205533.GA8074@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > I think I got us off-track with my expectation of ending the one case > with a conflicted index. But caring about that is even more unlikely. I > think Thomas's original patch is probably a happy medium. OK, so should I consider it Reviewed-by: peff? > As an orthogonal matter, we probably should reverse the order of > updating HEAD and the index/working tree, as it does not make much sense > to me to do the former if the latter is not possible (and that is the > case even with the current code). Yes.