From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:53:10 GMT
Subject: Re: why is merging with unstaged changes allowed when rebasing is not?
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=dnyaPTX0Y43nbAGp46NtscKT3a2idxEhkreMm@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com> writes:

> Isn't it inconsistent that I can merge with unstaged changes in my
> work-tree but not rebase?

Because people who wrote rebase didn't bother; it is too cumbersome to
check all the possibly affected paths beforehand while replaying multiple
changes.

Patches welcome ;-).