Re: Proposal: create meaningful aliases for git reset's hard/soft/mixed

From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2011, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr7+5x2+=7H=UQhVw56coBO7J4Ot8weckAg=V2TujLM9BQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nxvusty.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

>> Optional: a new mode would be introduced for consistency:
>> --worktree (or maybe --tree): only updates the worktree but not the index
>
> That would be an alias for "git checkout <rev> -- path", right?

Hum... yeah probably, what motivated me was that there's a way to reset the index and not the worktree, but there's no way to reset the worktree but not the index. I guess it's "checkout" as you pointed out.

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>> --keep could be removed in favor of an additional --safe flag
>
> If you are to change the option names, then you should also make the
> behavior safe by default:
>
> * "git reset --all" = "git reset --keep"
> * "git reset --all --force" = "git reset --hard"

Yes that's actually much better. Let's change my proposal to that.

Philippe