Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID: <200806251058.54319.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080625022610.GB20361@mit.edu>

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

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> The reason why I've been thinking that I should change my shell script
> from:
> 
>         git checkout integration
>         git reset --hard <foo>
> 
> to:
> 
>         git update-ref ref/heads/integration HEAD
>         git checkout integration

Hmmmm.... Wouldn't it be easier on fingers to use

          git reset --soft integration

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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