From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:59:14 GMT
Subject: [RFC] git reset --recover
Message-ID: <46dff0320803030659j2fa0325lf9c88b915ddb70da@mail.gmail.com>

Today i use git reset carelessly and lose all my changes!

To remind other people not do the same wrong thing, i share my
experience and propose a new option to avoid this happens again.
------------------------------------
foo
   .git
    bar
        file1
        file2
------------------------------------

In the direcotry structure above, i want to make bar as a repository
(which hasn't yet been tracked by foo repository). I should have done
this as follows

-------------------------------------------
cd bar
git init
git add
------------------------------------------

but i fogot to type "git init" which results that file1 and file2 are
added to index of foo repository. I tried to revert the operation
using "git reset". And the tragedy happened at that time because i
made so fatal  a mistake that i typed "git reset --hard". And i lost
all my files in bar dir!

So, can we introduce a --recover option for "git reset" to save the
foolish or careless people like me?

-- 
Ping Yin