From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:15:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] submodule: submodule_move_head omits old argument in forced case
Message-ID: <20171219231544.GH240141@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kake8k2dM=NPwNoqB5Vkxy+k67PACz01-aXx6-njcisgQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>>   checkout -f
>>         I think I would expect this not to touch a submodule that
>>         hasn't changed, since that would be consistent with its
>>         behavior on files that haven't changed.
[...]
> I may have a different understanding of git commands than you do,
> but a plain "checkout -f" with no further arguments is the same as
> a hard reset IMHO, and could be used interchangeably?

Ah, good catch.  Filed https://crbug.com/git/5 to clarify this in
documentation.  Thanks for clarifying.

Jonathan