Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlk0tz33n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130806251304u39c8ffdenc52904391aebd089@mail.gmail.com>

"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> How about making "git checkout" default to HEAD if no revision is
> supplied?  There's precedent for this in, say, git-diff (and I think a
> few others).

Won't fly. 'git checkout -- "$@"' is to revert to the last staged version.

 * You say "git checkout branch" when you want to "check out that branch";

 * You say "git checkout -- file" when you want to "check out the file
   from the index";

 * You say "git checkout v1.5 -- file" when you want to "check out the
   file out of that revision".

It's not that hard.

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