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Re: Now What?

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CSChris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2005, 01:43 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 07:30:37PM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:
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> 
> The Other Day, I offered to help write up some parts of
> a "Something weird just happened.  Now What?" document.
> 
> So, I'm now soliciting suggestions and/or tips that can
> be thrown together to form the basis of that document.
> 
> I have a few ideas and a rough outline up my sleeve, but
> I am curious to know what _you_ think needs to be covered.

"I cloned a remote repo. Then I pulled a branch from the remote repo and it started changing all the these files. I paniced and hit ctrl-c. Doh! I should have checked out the branch locally before pulling. Now what? How can I recover without cloning the repo again?"

In general, for each common operation, it'd be nice to explain how to "undo". 

-chris
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