From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:51:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vy6lyaz9b.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > The work tree is overwritten by the result of the > merge when this combining is done cleanly, and the result is > committed. Otherwise it is > overwritten by a half-merged results when this combining results I thought of something like this, but this is slightly incorrect in case of fast-forward (Git doesn't "commit", but "reuses" a commit), so I prefered making a separate paragraph. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/