Re: pull into dirty working tree

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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:49 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > It might make it a bit easier for CVS people to get used to the git model: 
> > keep your dirty working tree, and do "git pull" to update it, and fix up 
> > any conflicts in the working tree. That's how CVS works - it's a bad 
> > model, but it's a model that may be worth supporting just to get people 
> > more easily into the _good_ model.
> 
> If a bad model _is_ supported, what incentive is there for these
> people to move into the good model, I honestly wonder...

Is it a bad model for the normal development process? Probably.

Would it solve the problem of "I want to keep my debug-statements that I
won't ever commit in the merged result"? ... yes

I think that's at least one valid usecase we should probably support.
One I'd also like to use ;-)

-- 
best regards

  Ray

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