From: John Dlugosz <jdlugosz@tradestation.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:08:23 GMT
Subject: RE: undoing something
Message-ID: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF242@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtz5ssk0s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> The documentation is indeed wrong.  It is more like "create a new
> branch,
> or if the named branch already exists, reset the tip of it".  

Awesome.  Then  git branch -f name newpos  is exactly what I need.  

I wondered why something that should be so simple, and is available from
every GUI, is not easy from the command line.

--John


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