From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:58:24 GMT
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Message-ID: <47E6A850.5060308@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlsp5ly8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>>    Native git doesn't have any equivalent, other than:
>>
>>    git clone -n .... tmp
>>    mv tmp/.git .
>>    rm -rf tmp
>>    git checkout HEAD
> 
> Or
> 
> 	git init
>         git add remote -f .....
> 
>> 2. cg-restore
>>
>>    Cogito separated "reset" and "restore".  This is a syntactic sugar
>>    issue, but having to type "git reset --hard -- path" makes me
>>    nervous, especially since hitting Enter at the wrong time could have
>>    serious and irrevocable consequences.
> 
> Why --hard?

To make it actually change the file in the working directory (equivalent 
to the -f option in cg-restore.)

	-hpa