Posted Aug 6, 2008 3:47 UTC (Wed) by benlynn (guest, #53270)
In reply to: Simplified porcelains? by epa
Parent article: Git Magic
My bad: in the old days, git was less forgiving. As others have noted, nowadays a checkout
fails on unclean trees. That is, unless you specify particular paths in which case only those
particular paths are overwritten. I've updated the guide to reflect this.