git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2010, 03:53 UTC
Message-ID
<7vd3qr3tm8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<vpqzktwv3yx.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
Show 10 quoted lines
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Sadly, at least the user manual change suggested below is probably
>> not suitable, since reset --keep and --merge have not been around
>> since git 1.5.3 days.  Ideas for working around that and other
>> comments would be welcome.
>
> Do we really want to keep the user manual compatible with 1.5.3
> forever? It's nice to keep the user manual usable by slightly outdated
> Gits, but 1.5.3 starts being really old,...

1.5.6 is more than 2 years old (June 18th, 2008), 1.5.3 is more than 3 years old (September 2nd, 2007). In git timescale, they are becoming prehistoric.

Even though the knowledge of the conceptual structure and the philosophy learned with old versions like 1.5.X series would still apply to today's git, at the UI level facing the end users, there are vast differences (some may call that improvements ;-) between them and today's git.

I am tempted to say we should 1.5.X series behind, and name one that is still relatively old like 1.6.3 (May 2009) or 1.6.4 (July 2009) the oldest vintage we currently recognise as a proper member of our family.

What is the oldest version of git that is shipped with _current_ distros, by the way?

Previous: Matthieu MoyNext: Matthieu Moy
Message 6 of 10 in “Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit”
  1. 0/2 Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habitJonathan Nieder, Oct 29, 2010
  2. 1/2 Documentation: suggest "reset --merge" more oftenJonathan Nieder, Oct 29, 2010
  3. Stephen BoydNov 3, 2010
  4. 2/2 Documentation: suggest "reset --keep" more oftenJonathan Nieder, Oct 29, 2010
  5. Matthieu MoyOct 30, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2010
  7. Matthieu MoyOct 31, 2010
  8. Oldest Currently Distributed Git {Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit}Drew Northup, Nov 5, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 31, 2010
  10. J. Bruce FieldsNov 1, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.