From: Neal Kreitzinger Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:13:58 GMT Subject: Re: git fetch,git merge and git rebase Message-ID: <4D556E56.30702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 2/11/2011 6:32 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Neal Kreitzinger > wrote: >> On 2/9/2011 11:29 PM, Akash wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to git .Can someone explain in simple terms what git fetch,git >>> merge and git rebase do?..I tried googling but was very confused after >>> going >>> thro it. >>> >>> Also, can someone prescribe a link which explains git in detail right from >>> scratch. >>> >>> >> another definition of git-rebase: >> >> git-rebase: the MOST DANGEROUS command in git. you can easily DESTROY your >> repo if you don't know what you're doing! Until you get the hang of it, >> always make a copy of the before-image of the branch your rebasing >> (mybranch) by doing a "git checkout mybranch" and then "git branch >> copy-of-mybranch". Then if you destroy mybranch you can recover it from >> copy-of-mybranch. > What about 'git rebase --hard', or 'git branch -D'? In all cases you > can recover by using the reflog. > i take you meant 'git reset --hard'... v/r, neal