From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:50:14 GMT
Subject: Re: On git 1.6 (novice's opinion)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903291149460.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3e8340490903282241u355ce5b3u1a6ff23b27f4ec12@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Bryan Donlan wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Ulrich Windl
> <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > 3) "git undo": If possible undo the effects of the last command.
> 
> You can roll back the state of most local references by using the git 
> reflog (see git reflog --help for more information). This covers most 
> situations - but note that it only works to roll back to a committed 
> state, and won't save any uncommitted data at all.

Which is why you should commit early and often, and certainly before doing 
something bigger.

Ciao,
Dscho