Re: Message from git reset: confusing?

From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2009, 18:07 UTC
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908051107o5df3a780j7481bc364ae3062d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130908051042x5308e8fte7b3ead6bf1f24ee@mail.gmail.com>

> Even if people don't know what "M" means on day 1 (although hopefully
> they don't need "git reset" on day 1), at least it doesn't look like
> an error message.

Actually for newbies, git reset is pretty much the first thing they learn to try to undo the mess that they created.

Almost the very first thing a newbie to git does is something like:

$ git checkout experimental_branch <modify file> $ git commit .. (what do you mean I've committed to a detached head? why is everything going wrong? what's happening!!)

$ git reset