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Re: [PATCH] reset: Better warning message on git reset --mixed <paths>

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 15, 2010, 22:18 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Nothing major.  It would be the same inconsistency as we currently have
> between "checkout <commit> -- <pathspec>" and "checkout <commit> --":
> one updates the HEAD (or rather, for "reset", the current branch),
> while the other doesn’t.

What do you mean by inconsistency? One is checking out the whole branch to work on the named branch, while the other is checking out individual paths out of branch to work on them in the current branch.

They are entirely different operations.
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Message 8 of 18 in “reset: Better warning message on git reset --mixed <paths>”
  1. reset: Better warning message on git reset --mixed <paths>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 14, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederAug 14, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2010
  4. Miles BaderAug 15, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 15, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederAug 15, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2010
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 15, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2010
  11. Miles BaderAug 16, 2010
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 16, 2010
  13. Ralf EbertAug 15, 2010
  14. Jonathan NiederAug 16, 2010
  15. David FriesAug 15, 2010
  16. reset: Better warning message on git reset --mixed <paths>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 15, 2010
  17. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2010
  18. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 16, 2010

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