On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:30 AM Thomas Gummerer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Add a definition for what overlay means in the context of git, to > clarify the recently introduced overlay-mode in git checkout. > > Helped-by: Elijah Newren <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <[email protected]> > --- > > v2 addresses Elijah's comments (thanks!), using the wording he > suggested in [*1*], which I agree is slightly better, as no-overlay > mode doesn't touch untracked files.
It could overwrite untracked files (e.g. the file is present in the source, but not tracked) but never delete them. But I think it's the little detail that we could skip. -- Duy
