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Re: bad git pull

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 16, 2005, 19:21 UTC
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Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> While I am sympathetic, this "Oops, I said pull when I meant
>> fetch" sounds remotely similar to "oops, I said 'rm -r' when I
>> meant to say 'ls -r'".  Is it that the tool is too fragile?
>
> Didn't bk come with some kind of (one-level) undo pull?  It should not
> be too hard to create something similar considering that one could
> just leave new objects in the db orphaned.
Yes, that is called "git reset".
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  1. Don ZickusDec 15, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 15, 2005
  4. Don ZickusDec 16, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2005
  6. Carl BaldwinDec 16, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2005
  8. Morten WelinderDec 16, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsDec 16, 2005
  11. Morten WelinderDec 17, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsDec 17, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsDec 17, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2005
  16. Nicolas PitreDec 17, 2005
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2005
  18. Nicolas PitreDec 18, 2005
  19. Linus TorvaldsDec 18, 2005
  20. Junio C HamanoDec 18, 2005
  21. Nicolas PitreDec 18, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2005

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