gitgit-bisect

Make Git Bisect do a force checkout or otherwise overwrite local changes

I'm git bisecting a Unity3D repository and every time I open the Unity3D editor to check if the current revision is good or bad, Unity3D dirties a few files, forcing me to do a hard reset before continuing with the bisection.

This is because if I don't reset, I'll get:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
        Platform/Assembly-CSharp.csproj
        Platform/ProjectSettings/ProjectSettings.asset
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

Is there any way to tell git bisect to use --force in its checkout call or otherwise avoid having to reset every single time?

Solution

  • After reading the source code, there is not a built-in way to do this.

    I've submitted a patch (github) that adds this feature, hopefully it makes it into a release.