[git-users] HELP! "stash pop" is failing and I can't get my work out

2013-03-08 Thread Piers H
So, i'm doing the 'stash/pull/pop' dance that git forces me to go through when pulling changes into a modified working tree, and it has come back with a whole bunch of ' already exists, no checkout', 'could not restore untracked files from stash'. so now i'm screwed and extremely frustrated. w

Re: [git-users] HELP! "stash pop" is failing and I can't get my work out

2013-03-08 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 01:06:04PM -0800, Piers H wrote: > So, i'm doing the 'stash/pull/pop' dance that git forces me to go through > when pulling changes into a modified working tree, and it has come back > with a whole bunch of ' already exists, no checkout', 'could not > restore untracked f

Re: [git-users] HELP! "stash pop" is failing and I can't get my work out

2013-03-08 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 02:51:16AM +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: [...] > I recall someone appearing here sharing their similar frustration with > Git not doing file-level merging when bringing in "upstream" changes, > with automatically making untracked files tracked, if the same-named > file

[git-users] Re: git merge: error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge

2013-03-08 Thread Johan 't Hart
On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:48:33 PM UTC+1, Carsten wrote: > >> My guess is that it has just always behaved that way, and changing it now > would surprise too many users. Personally I would find it very disturbing > if "merge" started modifying my index (the only commands that should modify

[git-users] Re: git merge: error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge

2013-03-08 Thread Johan 't Hart
On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:48:33 PM UTC+1, Carsten wrote: > > > Hi again, > > Am 11.01.2013 11:38, schrieb Carsten Fuchs: > > [...] > > So my real question is, why does Git not do something analogous? > > (Afaics, update the HEAD, update the Index, but leave the working-copy > edition al

Re: [git-users] HELP! "stash pop" is failing and I can't get my work out

2013-03-08 Thread Piers H
well, thanks for your help. but, in the end i just blew away all my work and started again from scratch. not happy. i seriously don't understand why it's so hard to do this seemingly simple thing - bring me up-to-date. i just want it to get the changes, merge them in and show me the conflicts.