-implement (for me, at least). Being a fairly fresh code base it has some
-bugs. It also has some drawbacks (especially wrt merge which was the hard
-part). GIT doesn't have a similar functionality like 'svn merge -rOLD:NEW
-FILE' (please see the relevant comment in mergepast for more details), so I
-had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
+implement (for me, at least). It has some drawbacks (especially wrt merge
+which was the hard part). GIT doesn't have a similar functionality like
+'svn merge -rOLD:NEW FILE' (please see the relevant comment in `_merge_past`
+for more details), so I had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
+
+> I was looking at this, and WRT the problem of uncommitted local changes,
+> it seems to me you could just git-stash them now that git-stash exists.
+> I think it didn't when you first added the git support.. --[[Joey]]