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Re: Git reset --hard with staged changes

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Pierre-François CLEMENT <likeyn@gmail.com>
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Jun 9, 2014, 11:24 UTC
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Hi all,

Someone pointed out on the "Git for human beings" Google group (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/git-users/27_FxIV_100/discussion) that using git-reset's hard mode when having staged untracked files simply deletes them from the working dir.

Since git-reset specifically doesn't touch untracked files, one could expect having staged untracked files reset to their previous "untracked" state rather than being deleted.

Could this be a bug or a missing feature? Or if it isn't, can someone explain what we got wrong? Cheers

-- Pierre-François CLEMENT Application developer at Upcast Social

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