RE: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

Jonas Bang em...@jonasbang.dk writes: ... The default behaviour would cover their use case so your proposal would not hurt them, but I wonder if there are things you could do to help them as well, perhaps by allowing this new configuration to express something like local changes in

Re: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

Jonas Bang em...@jonasbang.dk writes: ... The default behaviour would cover their use case so your proposal would not hurt them, but I wonder if there are things you could do to help them as well, perhaps by allowing this new configuration to express something like local changes in

RE: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

For some people it is also a norm to keep files that have been modified from HEAD and/or index without committing for a long time (e.g. earlier, Linus said that the version in Makefile is updated and kept modified in the working tree long before a new release is committed with that

Re: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

Jonas Bang em...@jonasbang.dk writes: For some people it is also a norm to keep files that have been modified from HEAD and/or index without committing for a long time (e.g. earlier, Linus said that the version in Makefile is updated and kept modified in the working tree long before a new

RE: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

Thanks for your feedback, Junio, I have added more details and tried to simplify the request. Jonas Bang em...@jonasbang.dk writes: Hi Git developers, This is my first Git feature request, I hope it won’t get me hanged on the gallows ;o) *Git feature request:* Add an option to

Re: Git feature request: Option to force Git to abort a checkout if working directory is dirty (i.e. disregarding the check for conflicts)

Jonas Bang em...@jonasbang.dk writes: Hi Git developers, This is my first Git feature request, I hope it won’t get me hanged on the gallows ;o) *Git feature request:* Add an option to Git config to configure the criteria for when a git checkout should abort. *Name proposal and