From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:58:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to
Message-ID: <32541b130806251358n3ab6cfc8y7a90d898b9308e12@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4m5z1f8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 6/25/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> >>   * You say "git checkout -- file" when you want to "check out the file
>  >>    from the index";
>  >
>  > The real question here is the --.  Is it strictly needed?  It's
>  > optional in things like git-diff, which just do their best to guess
>  > what you mean if you don't use the --.
>
> No, I wrote -- only for clarity, because you can happen to have a branch
>  whose name is the same as the file.  Otherwise you can safely omit it,
>  just like git-diff and any other commands that follow the -- convention.

Oops, I got mixed up.  Only git-reset requires the --.  Would it make
sense to bring git-reset into line with everything else, then?

Thanks,

Avery