From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:47:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git reset --recover
Message-ID: <46dff0320803030847t42583badw1f5163d600a6fafb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160803030713r7bdcf825sf994cbb20f096ccd@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Today i use git reset carelessly and lose all my changes!
>  >

>  >
>  >  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!
>
>  "git reset" was sufficient.
>
I know about this, but i was just too careless.
>
>  >
>  >  So, can we introduce a --recover option for "git reset" to save the
>  >  foolish or careless people like me?
>
>  Another possibility would be to not delete a file that is absent in
>  both the old and new HEAD, even if it was in the index.
>
Sounds interesting.
>  Santi
>



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Ping Yin