From 76b80cdf17807ba4a773562df2218980ffa27e4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:55 +0200 Subject: Documentation/git-merge.txt: weaken warning about uncommited changes Commit 35d2fffd introduced 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge', and added some failing tests in t7611-merge-abort.sh (search '###' in this file) showing that 'git merge --abort' could not always recover the pre-merge state. Still, in many cases, 'git merge --abort' just works, and it is usually considered that the ability to start a merge with uncommited changes is an important property of Git. Weaken the warning by discouraging only merge with /non-trivial/ uncommited changes. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 7780863..20a9912 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ especially if those changes were further modified after the merge was started), 'git merge --abort' will in some cases be unable to reconstruct the original (pre-merge) changes. Therefore: -*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with uncommitted changes is -discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that is hard to +*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with non-trivial uncommitted changes is +discouraged: while possible, it may leave you in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6