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Re: More Beginning Git Questions

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2011, 21:10 UTC
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tactical <a5158017@nepwk.com> writes:
> Jon Forrest wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> > > Generally Alice shouldn't have uncommitted changes when doing
> > > "git pull".
> > 
> > That's what the tutorial said but I'm trying to understand
> > what happens if she does have uncommitted changes. I'm
> > trying to understand the total picture.
> 
> Mercurial allows this, and it's a very powerful feature.
You *do* realize thet "hg pull" is "git fetch", don't you?
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>  After reading 
> this thread, I could not believe Git didn't pulling with local changes, and 
> so I tried it, and also asked on IRC -- and it seems that Git really 
> doesn't.
> 
> If this is an important part of your workflow (as it is mine), I'd 
> recommend using Mercurial if possible.
>

So the question is if mercurial allows _merging_ with local changes... and from the thread it looks like git dies allow it, as long as changes are isolated from changes brought by merge.

Anyway merging with local changes is an easy way to f**k up your changes in unrecoverable way, IMVHO...

-- 
Jakub Narębski
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Message 21 of 24 in “More Beginning Git Questions”
  1. Jon ForrestSep 23, 2011
  2. Matthieu MoySep 23, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiSep 23, 2011
  4. Jon ForrestSep 23, 2011
  5. Mihamina RakotomandimbySep 23, 2011
  6. Jakub NarebskiSep 23, 2011
  7. tacticalSep 24, 2011
  8. Frans KlaverSep 24, 2011
  9. tacticalSep 24, 2011
  10. Seth RobertsonSep 24, 2011
  11. tacticalSep 25, 2011
  12. Jakub NarebskiSep 25, 2011
  13. tacticalSep 25, 2011
  14. Jakub NarebskiSep 25, 2011
  15. tacticalSep 25, 2011
  16. Konstantin KhomoutovSep 26, 2011
  17. tacticalSep 26, 2011
  18. Andrew ArdillSep 26, 2011
  19. tacticalSep 26, 2011
  20. Jakub NarebskiSep 26, 2011
  21. Jakub NarebskiSep 24, 2011
  22. tacticalSep 24, 2011
  23. Jakub NarebskiSep 25, 2011
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2011

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