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authorChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>2010-01-19 05:26:01 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-06 20:06:50 -0800
commit812d2a3d61b1bbb1931aff2ed6d2a17e939f5bf2 (patch)
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parentab892a19e83edd1cf9a767bc09d3239f72469d05 (diff)
downloadgit-812d2a3d61b1bbb1931aff2ed6d2a17e939f5bf2.tar.gz
reset: disallow using --keep when there are unmerged entries
The use case for --keep option is to remove previous commits unrelated to the current changes in the working tree. So in this use case we are not supposed to have unmerged entries. This is why it seems safer to just disallow using --keep when there are unmerged entries. And this patch changes the error message when --keep was disallowed and there were some unmerged entries from: error: Entry 'file1' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge. fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD^'. to: fatal: Cannot do a keep reset in the middle of a merge. which is nicer. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 1e9ae0ae9f..58d9b4c062 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ tree. If there could be conflicts between the changes in the commit we
want to remove and the changes in the working tree we want to keep,
the reset is disallowed. That's why it is disallowed if there are both
changes between the working tree and HEAD, and between HEAD and the
-target.
+target. To be safe, it is also disallowed when there are unmerged
+entries.
The following tables show what happens when there are unmerged
entries:
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ entries:
--mixed X A A
--hard A A A
--merge A A A
- --keep X A A
+ --keep (disallowed)
X means any state and U means an unmerged index.