checkout: inform the user when removing branch state

After a successful switch, if a merge, cherry-pick or revert is ongoing,
it is canceled. This behavior has been with us from the very early
beginning, soon after git-merge was created but never actually
documented [1]. It may be a good idea to be transparent and tell the
user if some operation is canceled.

I consider this a better way of telling the user than just adding a
sentence or two in git-checkout.txt, which will be mostly ignored
anyway.

PS. Originally I wanted to print more details like

    warning: cancelling an in-progress merge from <SHA-1>

which may allow some level of undo if the user wants to. But that seems
a lot more work. Perhaps it can be improved later if people still want
that.

[1] ... and I will try not to argue whether it is a sensible behavior.
There is some more discussion here if people are interested:
CACsJy8Axa5WsLSjiscjnxVK6jQHkfs-gH959=YtUvQkWriAk5w@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-03-29 17:38:59 +07:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent af9ded5b70
commit f4a4b9aca3
7 changed files with 14 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
print_new_head_line(lookup_commit_reference(the_repository, &oid));
}
if (!pathspec.nr)
remove_branch_state(the_repository);
remove_branch_state(the_repository, 0);
return update_ref_status;
}