From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:49:05 GMT
Subject: Re: pull into dirty working tree
Message-ID: <7vps3zascu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706132216300.14121@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> It might make it a bit easier for CVS people to get used to the git model: 
> keep your dirty working tree, and do "git pull" to update it, and fix up 
> any conflicts in the working tree. That's how CVS works - it's a bad 
> model, but it's a model that may be worth supporting just to get people 
> more easily into the _good_ model.

If a bad model _is_ supported, what incentive is there for these
people to move into the good model, I honestly wonder...