Re: [PATCH] Fix pulling into the same branch.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 11, 2005, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111054590.3242@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6hntslb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Yes, but the issue becomes how we can reliably tell if a
> repository is naked or has an associated working tree.

You can't "git pull" into a naked thing anyway. And

	git-read-tree -m -u <old-head> <new-head>

should always do the right thing (ie if there is dirty state that would be updated, it will fail gracefully).

Or did I miss something?

		Linus

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