Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 08:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhbq4xbok.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-0D3105.23314829012010@news.gmane.org>

Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:

> It wouldn't.  Was this a trick question?  Did you mean to ask what would 
> happen if I ran commit -a?

I didn't mean _literally_ "git commit". Any random thing you may want to do when you come back to work the next day and find a checked out work tree. Viewing, editing, committing, etc.

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>> *1* As a set of "building blocks" to implement "reset" and "checkout", I
>> don't necessarily agree that "update" would be a good way to go from the
>> implementation standpoint, but that is a totally separate matter.
>
> Did you mean "don't necessarily DISagree"?

I have huge doubts that "update" is the best way to do reset/checkout.

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