From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:26:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposal: create meaningful aliases for git reset's hard/soft/mixed
Message-ID: <201112020826.14114.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CABURp0rtCUbJXLHtXv_1g6GRKL3mX-T+3vN1=QO4CUibqXdEMg@mail.gmail.com>

Phil Hord wrote:
> 
> Think outside the "reset" command.  Like this:
> 
> From the "most popular" comment on http://progit.org/2011/07/11/reset.html:
> > I remember them as:
> > --soft      -> git uncommit
> > --mixed  -> git unadd
> > --hard     -> git undo
> 
> I don't particular like these names, but conceptually they are helpful.

I think all of these, but the last one in particular, are *very*
dangerous oversimplifications.  Doubly so if you then use "undo" with
a revision argument.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch