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Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees

We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert
(over)users of git-pull to the issue.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Thomas Rast 15 years ago
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      Documentation/git-merge.txt
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      Documentation/git-pull.txt

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Documentation/git-merge.txt

@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ The second syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ The second syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for
historical reasons. Do not use it from the command line or in
new scripts. It is the same as `git merge -m <msg> <commit>...`.

*Warning*: Running 'git-merge' with uncommitted changes is
discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that is hard to
back out of in the case of a conflict.


OPTIONS
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Documentation/git-pull.txt

@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ when merging local branches into the current branch. @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ when merging local branches into the current branch.
Also note that options meant for 'git-pull' itself and underlying
'git-merge' must be given before the options meant for 'git-fetch'.

*Warning*: Running 'git-pull' (actually, the underlying 'git-merge')
with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you
in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict.

OPTIONS
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