From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:14:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error message
Message-ID: <AANLkTikuQdJykM7MUV=C5DR7HO5xseBifrY_w2ZWsCiR@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1287499168-26569-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 16:39, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> -               git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh &&
> -               git diff-files --ignore-submodules --quiet &&
> -               git diff-index --ignore-submodules --cached --quiet HEAD -- ||
> -               die "refusing to pull with rebase: your working tree is not up-to-date"
> +               require_clean_work_tree "pull with rebase" "Please commit or stash them."

Doing this sort of thing is basically incompatible with doing
i18n. I'll work around this when rebasing the ab/i18n series, but in
the long term we shouldn't be doing stuff like this.