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Re: git push requires a subsequent git reset --hard ?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 1, 2008, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20080701171913.GA8911@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<912ec82a0807010951j9e970f2k9624682b33c8af7d@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:51:26PM +0300, Neshama Parhoti wrote:
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> On my return, I just "git push myuser@my-station:/my/git/repo" from my laptop.
> It seemed to work with no probs.
> On my station the git repo got the new commits, as I can see in
> git-log, but the actual files were left untouched.
> 
> So I need to do something like "git reset --hard HEAD" to get
> the changes into the local files.
> 
> Is that considered normal ?
> 
> or did I do something wrong ?
See:
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73
  and
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-46de97a5ac549d3adf406c22674b3325ae25d09c
What you did is OK, but there is a better way to do it.
-Peff
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  1. Neshama ParhotiJul 1, 2008
  2. Jeff KingJul 1, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 1, 2008
  4. Dmitry PotapovJul 2, 2008
  5. Neshama ParhotiJul 4, 2008
  6. Dmitry PotapovJul 2, 2008

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