# cg-update/cg-merge refuse to update if state is dirty?

2 messages from 2005-08-23 to 2005-08-23. Participants: Martin Langhoff, Carl Baldwin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1620

## Martin Langhoff, 2005-08-23 08:09

Subject: cg-update/cg-merge refuse to update if state is dirty?
Message-ID: <46a038f905082301096285a3cb@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f905082301096285a3cb%40mail.gmail.com

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Should cg-update or cg-merge be refusing to merge if the tree is
dirty? If there are uncommitted files, and the merge fails, a lot of
unrelated changes will be dumped on the working tree, which ends up
with a mix of things.

cheers,


martin

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## Carl Baldwin, 2005-08-23 14:22

Subject: Re: cg-update/cg-merge refuse to update if state is dirty?
Message-ID: <20050823142221.GA21663@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050823142221.GA21663%40hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com
In-Reply-To: <46a038f905082301096285a3cb@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

Here's a thought.  It might be nice, in this situation, to have
something like a git-undo-script that can undo the changes in the index
storing them in a tree object but not wrapping them into a commit.  A
ref to the tree can be stored in an 'undo' file somewhere under .git.
When the merge is done then a git-redo-script can retrieve and merge
that tree back into the index.  This way, cg-{merge,update} could refuse
--- which I tend to think it should --- to merge into a dirty tree but
it wouldn't be so inconvenient.

cogito would handle synchronization with the working copy like normal.

Carl

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:09:04PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Should cg-update or cg-merge be refusing to merge if the tree is
> dirty? If there are uncommitted files, and the merge fails, a lot of
> unrelated changes will be dumped on the working tree, which ends up
> with a mix of things.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> martin
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