Re: [PATCH] reset: update help text

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2011, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknvWE9Fe3u88Jbis4Cgxd5ubqaR6MzYOJZ-AtM@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110329210457.GA14031@elie>

2011/3/30 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:

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> The description does not make it obvious to me how these two (--merge
> and --keep) differ.  I think the intent of the options are:
>
>  --keep:
>        start working on a different commit, carrying over local changes
>        (like "git checkout")
>  --merge:
>        return to <commit>, cancelling a merge-like operation that
>        creates some unmerged and some clean index entries
>
> Maybe something along these lines could be ok starting point?
>
>        OPT_SET_INT(0, "keep", &reset_type,
>                "move to <commit>, carrying over local changes in working tree",
>                KEEP),
>        OPT_SET_INT(0, "merge", &reset_type,
>                "return to <commit>, cancelling failed merge or cherry-pick",
>                MERGE),
>

To be honest, I have no idea what the above describes. I read 9bc454d (reset: add option "--keep" to "git reset" - 2010-01-19) and figured that --keep is like --merge except that "git diff" before and after the reset is exactly the same, is it? I have never used --keep before.

-- 
Duy