Re: [Gnu-arch-users] how do I protect against this user error

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Robert Anderson" <address@hidden>

    > Something I do all the time and then get irritated fixing it, is
    > update or replay into a tree that has local changes that I don't
    > want mixed in with the applied patches.

    > What I really wanted to do was either to undo the local changes,
    > then bring in the merges and commit them, or I wanted to commit
    > the local changes, then do the update.

    > One answer is "have more discipline before issuing commands" but
    > hey, that apparently isn't going to happen without a brain
    > transplant, so I want to guard against this in an automated way.

    > Seems like what I want is an analog of tree-lint that kicks me
    > out of the update or replay if the tree state isn't clean wrt
    > local changes.

    > Anyone else have this itch?

#!/bin/sh
set -e
tla what-changed --diffs [...]
tla udpate [...]

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