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From: Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
	Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding a recent commit in emacs-25 branch [ed19f2]
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:57:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u0ueo3x.fsf@acer.localhost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvpazsqo.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On Sun, Apr 03 2016 16:12 (+0200), Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Single caveat: Do NOT start a merge when you have uncommited changes.
>
> git merge will not allow overwriting uncommited changes anyway.
>
> Andreas.

That's correct, but if the changes are in files unaffected by the merge,
git *does* start the merge.  But it will be hard to return to the exact
pre-merge state if you want to abort.

At least that's what everybody and the man page tell me, I can't
remember whether I tested it myself at some point.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-03 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01  5:32 Understanding a recent commit in emacs-25 branch [ed19f2] Kaushal Modi
2016-04-01  5:43 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-01  6:43   ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-03 12:03     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-03 12:10       ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-03 14:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-03 14:49           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-03 18:15           ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-03 18:45             ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 18:56               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 20:02               ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-03 21:15                 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 23:11                 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-03 12:18       ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 11:17   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-03 11:27     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 11:40     ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 12:14       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-03 12:30         ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 14:12           ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 14:57             ` Ingo Lohmar [this message]
2016-04-03 15:08               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 15:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 15:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 15:23             ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 15:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 16:00                 ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 16:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 16:24                     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 17:09                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 17:35                         ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 18:04                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 11:44     ` Dmitry Gutov

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