From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:42:41 GMT
Subject: Re: --mixed option is deprecated with paths
Message-ID: <7v7hjthtfy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik_NuG3YKMknwh4fAK09kTH0tK1f08MzsexUMcV@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>     $ git reset --mixed t/Makefile
>     warning: --mixed option is deprecated with paths.
>     Unstaged changes after reset:
>     M       t/Makefile
>
> So what should I use instead? 0e5a7faa which introduced it doesn't say.

You should say nothing.  "git reset [<commit>] <path>" is about resetting
the index entry selectively, and there is no room for any mode to be
involved (iow "git reset --soft t/Makefile" does not make any sense),
hence deprecation.