hi, I also had this recently where people push over sftp:// to a [bound branch]. Is it possible to push these pending merges to the [master branch]? The only way I could figure out to not merge, it to get them to push to the [master branch] an then update again on the [bound branch]. I guess, we could have just merged them in, but I don't like pointless merges too much. It was a little confusing though, until we figured out what happened. regards marius <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 6:56 AM, Matthew D. Fuller <<a href="mailto:fullermd@over-yonder.net">fullermd@over-yonder.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I was somewhat surprised to find out that 'update'ing a checkout with local commits and uncommitted changes goes ahead and does the pending merge conversion.  ISTM that it should complain and require forcing, just like merge requires sweet-talking to merge into a tree with uncommitted changes.  Is this an explicit choice, or just fallout from how it was written? </blockquote></div>