Re: [RFD] Git glossary: 'branch' and 'head' description

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 19, 2006, 09:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20060519092136.GN22257@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <87y7wyv72m.fsf@morpheus.hq.vtech>

David K?gedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> I noticed that some of this seems to be changing slightly with the
> introduction of branch logs, but I don't know how those are supposed
> to be used yet.

	$ git commit -a
	$ git pull . some/other-tag
	# go to lunch
	$ git pull . some/bad-stuff
	$ git commit -a
	# go home
	$ test...
	# realize this is all bad
	$ git reset --hard "master@{yesterday}"

:-)

Its really only useful for recording the history of your ref's state, so you can 'undo' a bad merge that you might have done a few days ago but not realized was bad until now.

-- 
Shawn.