Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:58:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I could argue that the above intended behaviour is suboptimal and it >> should have been "the resulting paths in the index and the work tree >> that match the given pathspec must be identical to that of the >> tree-ish". In the resulting index or working tree, paths that match >> "subdir" pathspec in the above result is subdir/a and subdir/b, and >> that is different from what exists in the given tree-ish (which has >> only subdir/a and not subdir/b), and under that modified definition, >> what the current one does is not correct. > > Our emails just crossed, but I basically ended up saying a similar > thing. Could we simply replace the "update_some" in builtin/checkout.c > with a two-way merge via unpack-trees? Would it work to resolve a conflicted index by checking out from a known tree? >> I vaguely recall arguing for the updated behaviour described in the >> above paragraph, and I even might have started working on it, but I >> do not think we changed this behaviour recently, unfortunately. > > Yes, I did some digging and I think it has always been this way, even > before git-checkout was a builtin. > > -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html