Re: VC mode and git

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:26:41 +0300
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
>> CC: address@hidden
>> 
>> On 03/31/2015 05:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>  > Nothing, IME.  Contrary to the cited text, "git pull" with uncommitted
>> > changes doesn't fail.  I do this every time before committing a
>> > changeset I intend to push, and it always worked for me.
>> 
>> Neither is exactly true. Since 1.7.0 or so, "git pull" with uncommitted 
>> changes can succeed if the newly pulled changes don't touch the locally 
>> changed files, but will fail otherwise. Which makes a lot of sense.
>
> Yes, and is expected.  Even CVS did that ;-)

No, CVS overwrites your changed files unconditionally.

Andreas.

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