From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:51:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Re: rebase -i: explain how to discard all commits Message-ID: <7vsjwmp5cs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: >> Wouldn't that suggest us that if we were to do anything to this message >> it would be a good idea to teach the user to "reset --hard" the branch >> if no commits truly needs to be replayed on top of the onto-commit? > > The important difference between rebase -i && noop on the one, and reset > --hard on the other hand is that the latter is completely unsafe. I mean, > utterly completely super-unsafe. And I say that because _this here > developer_ who is not exactly a Git noob lost stuff that way. I think "rebase" already checks that the index and the working tree is clean before starting, so referring to "reset --hard" when "rebase -i" notices there is absolutely nothing to do is _not_ unsafe, no?