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> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Nope. 'git reset' always reset some part of state to a given commit,
> >>> HEAD by default. It can reset current branch with --soft, branch plus
> >>> index with --mixed (default), and branch plus index plus working
> >>> directory with --hard. Source is always commit.
> >>
> >> You said it: 'git reset --hard' gets something out of the repository
> >> and into the working directory.
> >>
> >> Try this:
> >> git checkout <random sha-1 with no ref>
> >>
> >> Then what is the difference between:
> >> git checkout HEAD^
> >> git reset --hard HEAD^
> >>
> >> In this case they do exactly the same thing, don't they?
> >
> > No, they don't. "git checkout HEAD^" modifies HEAD detaching it.
> > "git reset --hard HEAD^" modifies branch that HEAD points to (well,
> > unless HEAD is detached).
>
> Read again:
> >> git checkout <random sha-1 with no ref>
>
> The HEAD is detached, so they do exactly the same in this case.
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>