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

[Robert Anderson]

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?

Bob