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Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] reset: learn to reset to tree

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 29, 2012, 18:47 UTC
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Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> writes:
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> In cases where HEAD is not supposed to be updated, there is no reason
> that "git reset" should require a commit, a tree should be enough. So
> make "git reset $rev^{tree}" work just like "git reset $rev", except
> that the former will not update HEAD (since there is no commit to
> point it to).

That is a horrible design I have to nack, unless you require pathspec. You cannot tell what "git reset $sha1" would do without checking the type of the object $sha1 refers to. If you do this only when pathspec is present, then the design is very reasonable.

> Disallow --soft with trees, since that is about updating only HEAD.
Likewise.
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