From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:16:39 GMT Subject: Re: Why is it bad to rewind a branch that has already been pushed out? Message-ID: <200702041716.39999.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: <7v1wl7bv66.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg --- diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 5fc5be5..129c5c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ this branch. If this branch is the only branch containing those commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that other developers pull from, as it will force needless merges on other developers to clean up the history. +If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use gitlink:git-revert[1] +instead. The git grep command can search for strings in any version of your project, so