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

2014-04-03 Thread Jonas Bang
> "Jonas Bang" 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 chan

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

2014-04-02 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Jonas Bang" 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)

2014-04-01 Thread Jonas Bang
> >> 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 w

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

2014-03-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Jonas Bang" 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 release

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

2014-03-29 Thread Jonas Bang
Thanks for your feedback, Junio, I have added more details and tried to simplify the request. > "Jonas Bang" 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 Gi

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

2014-03-27 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Jonas Bang" 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 options:* >