Suggestion for Git docummntation Book, Chapter "7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified"
- From
- Peter Hunkeler <peter.hunkeler@gmx.net>
- Date
- Jan 18, 2024, 18:42 UTC
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- <54482cec-88de-4e88-a153-f699c2c087d9@gmx.net>
Hi,
I appreciate all the work that has been done to give us Git users good documentation.
As a rather-newbie I have to lookup the commands I need for rarely used, specific tasks. <git reset ...> being one of them. If find chapter "7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified" very helpful. There is however one point that newbies might not (yet) clearly understand: The git reset does *not* do anything to new, untracked files that might exist in the working tree. To cleanup, the advice from various places on the internet is to issue a "git clean -f -d" after the reset.
Maybe it would be helpful if said chapter had a short discussion about non tracked files, how to clean with "git clean -f -d"
Thanks Peter