RE: three questions: proper forum? & reverting changes to the working directory
Well, a message I read after posting seems to have answered question #3. I'll look at "git checkout", which ignorant me thought was only used to change branches.
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> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of McKown, John
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 8:26 AM
> To: 'git@vger.kernel.org'
> Subject: three questions: proper forum? & reverting changes to the
> working directory
>
> 1) is this the proper forum for asking general git usage questions,
> such as "how to"? If not, what is?
>
> 2) I am unsure that I did things the "proper" way. I have a git
> maintained subdirectory. I made some changes and saved them in the
> working directory, but did not "git add" or "git commit" them. I then
> decided that I really messed up what I was doing (basically
> reformatting some source code). So to revert the changes back to what
> was last committed, I did a "git reset --hard HEAD". I think this is
> the proper way. But I picked up that command in the section of the
> documentation which was talking about abandoning a "git merge" attempt.
> What I did worked, but is it the proper way? If not, what is?
>
> 3) More generically, suppose I have a file in my working directory that
> I want to put back the way it was "n" commits ago. The best that I can
> see, so far, is "git show HEAD~n:file >|file", replacing the "n" and
> "file" with appropriate values.
>
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> John McKown
> Systems Engineer IV
> IT
>
> Administrative Services Group
>
> HealthMarkets(r)
>
> 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010
> (817) 255-3225 phone *
> john.mckown@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com
>
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