From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:59:56 GMT
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Message-ID: <7vtzix5kr7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47E6A850.5060308@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>>> 2. cg-restore
>>>
>>>    Cogito separated "reset" and "restore".  This is a syntactic sugar
>>>    issue, but having to type "git reset --hard -- path" makes me
>>>    nervous, especially since hitting Enter at the wrong time could have
>>>    serious and irrevocable consequences.
>>
>> Why --hard?
>
> To make it actually change the file in the working directory
> (equivalent to the -f option in cg-restore.)

Then "git checkout HEAD -- path"?