Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

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Hi,

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * jc/3way (Wed Nov 29 18:53:13 2006 -0800) 1 commit
>  + git-merge: preserve and merge local changes when doing fast
>    forward
> 
> A few people wanted to have this in v1.5.0, but I am a bit reluctant to 
> do so --- I think the behaviour of its failure mode is rather nasty, 
> even though it tries to help the user by dropping the local diff in 
> .git/LOCAL_DIFF file.

I am not urging the inclusion in 1.5.0, but how about storing not the 
diff, but the _state_ in .git/UNCOMMITTED_TREE? This would work with all 
the git tools without any problem, and git-gc would eventually clean up 
older intermediate stages.

Ciao,
Dscho

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