From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 08:43:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: update help text
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=m-MYaQZ8_u8-CAXPaVpJi9QDkTg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110331184246.GA19264@elie>

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I use "git reset --keep" to
>
>  - discard a bad commit: git reset --keep HEAD^
>  - start working against a different commit:
>
>        git checkout -b topic &&
>        ... hack hack hack without committing ... &&
>        : "oops, I thought I was on master but I was somewhere else" &&
>        git reset --keep master
>
> ..

Thanks. Your changes make sense to me now.
-- 
Duy