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

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Dec 2, 2011, 07:45 UTC
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
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>> > I remember them as:
>> > --soft      -> git uncommit
>> > --mixed  -> git unadd
>> > --hard     -> git undo
>> 
>> I don't particular like these names, but conceptually they are helpful.
>
> I think all of these, but the last one in particular, are *very*
> dangerous oversimplifications.  Doubly so if you then use "undo" with
> a revision argument.

I agree. Not only is it completely wrong when used with a revision argument, but "undo" is so vague that it's probably useless for _any_ git command, much less one so dangerous as "reset --hard".

-miles
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