From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:34:07 GMT
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Message-ID: <7vzlsp5ly8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47E69044.3000207@zytor.com>

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

>    Native git doesn't have any equivalent, other than:
>
>    git clone -n .... tmp
>    mv tmp/.git .
>    rm -rf tmp
>    git checkout HEAD

Or

	git init
        git add remote -f .....


>
> 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?