Re: [PATCH] git-reset: make the output as the fetch output

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2007, 15:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701171634160.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160701170723j5767f0d3jd3eb4b8817413195@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

[reCc'ing list]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Santi Béjar wrote:

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> On 1/17/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > IMHO your version is less helpful than the current behaviour: now it
> > shows the oneline (which your version doesn't), and in most cases you
> > reset from a dirty state (at least I _exclusively_ use reset in such
> > situations), where "from..to" does not make any sense.
> 
> My motivation is to have a coherent output. I recognize that the ..
> notation in fetch (fastforwarding) does not generally make sense in
> reset. Could be better
> 
> * HEAD: reset to ...
>  old: $hash
>  new: $hash
> 
> If I want to see the commit title I do a "git branch -v".

The whole point of tags/v1.5.0-rc0~44 was to _avoid_ "git branch -v", or "git show HEAD".

Ciao, Dscho