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Re: Pushing into a repository with working directory?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 5, 2007, 09:50 UTC
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Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> Is it fishy if the working directory and index match HEAD?  If not, then
> we could detect that and allow update in that case?

That actually is what 'git-pull' does when you misconfigure and use your current branch as the tracking branch (which is the only reason 'git-fetch' has the --update-head-ok option that should never be used by the end user).

We really should disallow this.
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Message 5 of 11 in “Pushing into a repository with working directory?”
  1. Shawn O. PearceJan 2, 2007
  2. Andy WhitcroftJan 5, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2007
  4. Andy WhitcroftJan 5, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2007
  6. Shawn O. PearceJan 5, 2007
  7. Andy WhitcroftJan 8, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceJan 9, 2007
  10. Andreas EricssonJan 9, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2007

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