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Re: Simplify "git reset --hard"

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 15, 2006, 06:55 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> Now that the one-way merge strategy does the right thing wrt files that do 
> not exist in the result, just remove all the random crud we did in "git 
> reset" to do this all by hand.
>
> Instead, just pass in "-u" to git-read-tree when we do a hard reset, and 
> depend on git-read-tree to update the working tree appropriately.

Well, this is wrong. Local modifications remain after your version of "git-reset --hard HEAD". which is not what we want from a hard reset.

-- >8 --
diff --git a/git-reset.sh b/git-reset.sh
index 0ee3e3e..ecc111b 100755
--- a/git-reset.sh
+++ b/git-reset.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ git-update-ref HEAD "$rev"
 
 case "$reset_type" in
 --hard )
-	;; # Nothing else to do
+	git-checkout-index -f -q -u -a ;;
 --soft )
 	;; # Nothing else to do
 --mixed )
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Message 4 of 8 in “Allow one-way tree merge to remove old files”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2006
  3. Simplify "git reset --hard"Linus Torvalds, May 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
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