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Re: Reverting an uncommitted revert

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 20, 2009, 18:25 UTC
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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >  (3) What should happen when you cannot write the index out as a tree?  I
> >      think it is easier to make mistakes during a conflicted merge
> >      resolution than during a straight linear development of your own, and
> >      one of the cases that would benefit most would be that you have
> >      resolved a path to your satisfaction but then later you screw up
> >      while resolving some other paths, losing an earlier resolution.
> 
> This one is tricky.  Maybe storing two reflog entries corresponding to 
> the unresolved stages?

BTW, what happens if one tries to 'git stash' an unresolved index? So far this trash reflog and git stash have quite in common, and stashing an unresolved index certainly has value too.

Nicolas
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Message 14 of 28 in “Reverting an uncommitted revert”
  1. Joshua JensenMay 20, 2009
  2. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  3. Jeff KingMay 20, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  5. Jeff KingMay 20, 2009
  6. Ping YinMay 20, 2009
  7. Wincent ColaiutaMay 20, 2009
  8. Jakub NarebskiMay 20, 2009
  9. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  10. Shawn O. PearceMay 20, 2009
  11. Eric RaibleMay 20, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2009
  13. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  14. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  15. Shawn O. PearceMay 20, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiMay 20, 2009
  18. Wincent ColaiutaMay 20, 2009
  19. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  20. Sverre RabbelierMay 20, 2009
  21. Jeff KingMay 20, 2009
  22. Nicolas PitreMay 20, 2009
  23. Sverre RabbelierMay 20, 2009
  24. Jeff KingMay 21, 2009
  25. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2009
  26. write-tree --ignore-cache-treeJunio C Hamano, May 20, 2009
  27. 1/2 cache-tree.c::cache_tree_find(): simplify inernal APIJunio C Hamano, May 21, 2009
  28. 2/2 Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-treeJunio C Hamano, May 21, 2009

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