The use case for --keep option is to remove previous commits unrelated
to the current changes in the working tree. So in this use case we are
not supposed to have unmerged entries. This is why it seems safer to
just disallow using --keep when there are unmerged entries.
And this patch changes the error message when --keep was disallowed and
there were some unmerged entries from:
error: Entry 'file1' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.
fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD^'.
to:
fatal: Cannot do a keep reset in the middle of a merge.
which is nicer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shows that with the "--keep" option, changes that are both in
the work tree and the index are kept in the work tree after the
reset (but discarded in the index).
In the case of unmerged entries, we can see that "git reset --keep"
works only when the target state is the same as HEAD. And then the
work tree is not reset.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When testing what happens on unmerged entries, the HEAD is the
commit we are starting from before the merge that fails and create
the unmerged entries. It is not the commit before.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some previous patches added some tables to the "git reset"
documentation. These tables describe the behavior of "git reset"
depending on the option it is passed and the state of the files
in the working tree, the index, HEAD and the target commit.
This patch adds some tests to make sure that the tables describe
the behavior of "git reset".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
