git reset --hard <commit> superfluous?

From: chris@seberino.org <chris@seberino.org>
Date: Jan 3, 2009, 01:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20090103011319.GA24149@seberino.org>

David

git reset --hard <commit> "resets" the current branch head.

Is this equivalent to deleting the branch and doing

git branch <branch> <commit> ??

So "git reset --hard" is syntactic sugar and 'unnecessary' right?

cs

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