From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:39:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Missing features in git
Message-ID: <20061114153922.GA5453@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20061114134958.5326.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On 2006-11-14 08:49:58 -0500, linux@horizon.com wrote:

> One feature that I noticed is missing, is that there's no easy way
> to do a "git reset --hard" while doing a "git checkout" style merge.
>
> An example of when you'd want to do this is performing a "git
> bisect" with a local "#define DEBUG 1" change. Particularly if you
> hit a non-compiling version and need to back up.

Yes, this feature would be good to have. StGIT makes it a little less
painful to hack around this limitation, but you still have to remember
popping your patches before running "git bisect good|bad".

Then again, in StGIT's case this could be solved by creating an "stg
bisect" command that takes care of this for you. But I still agree
with you that it would be a win if regular git could do as you
describe.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com