Hi Junio, On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Instead of running "update-index --refresh; read-tree -m -u", using > "reset --keep" may be a better implementation of what you are trying to > do here. I do not think that `reset --keep` is what I want. I really want to update only if the working directory is clean. So I guess I will have to bite the bullet and test the output of `update-index --refresh`, `diff-index --quiet --cached HEAD --`. In my case, the lacking test whether there are staged changes did not matter, just because I pretty much never leave staged changes around. What did matter, however, was to make sure that I did not update the working directory carelessly. In one case, that `update-index --refresh` test really helped me out because I was about to push into a working directory with uncommitted changes inside some web space. That push would have broken the web application because of the local changes, so I was really, really happy that I decided to be quite strict in the implementation of `updateInstead`. Due to that experience, the documentation also states pretty clearly that `updateInstead` succeeds only in updating the current branch if the working directory is clean. Ciao, Johannes -- 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