Re: VC mode and git

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sebastien Vauban <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:34:10 +0200
> 
> > With git pull, if there are changes in the working directory, the
> > merge (i.e. merge from remote/master into master) part of the
> > operation is aborted before it starts, giving a message describing its
> > refusal.  It does this even when there are no conflicts to deal with.
> 
> What are we supposed to do in that case, if we're not yet ready to
> commit our files?

Nothing, IME.  Contrary to the cited text, "git pull" with uncommitted
changes doesn't fail.  I do this every time before committing a
changeset I intend to push, and it always worked for me.

By contrast, if you do commit, and _then_ pull, your pull might fail
to merge the new stuff from upstream, and _then_ you'd need to do
something to fix that.  (I usually just "git reset HEAD^" and pull
again, then commit my changes again, after fixing the ChangeLog
entries to be in the correct order.)