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Re: newbie with broken workflow

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James Kingston <james.kingston@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 4, 2008, 14:08 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>  /c/wd/cc> cd /c/cc
>  /c/cc> git pull ../wd/cc
>
>  But wouldn't that fail, because the files are read-only?

Actually, I just tried and it worked beautifully. The directory is writable, so git replaces rather than modifies the files. Then I can use CCRC to search for hijacked files, check them out in one swoop with the option to keep my modifications, then check them all in as a group.

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