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authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2010-01-07 17:42:27 +0100
committerThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2010-01-09 21:08:26 +0100
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Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert (over)users of git-pull to the issue. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ when merging local branches into the current branch.
Also note that options meant for 'git-pull' itself and underlying
'git-merge' must be given before the options meant for 'git-fetch'.
+*Warning*: Running 'git-pull' (actually, the underlying 'git-merge')
+with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you
+in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict.
+
OPTIONS
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