From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:37:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] read-tree: at least one tree-ish argument is required
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0912181137t1265f86cs9e02019da136a0a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voclwxemf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 13:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Sure, it will empty the index, so it is dangerous in the same sense that
> "reset --hard" is dangerous because it will wipe all your local changes,
> or "rm -rf it" will remove everything underneath it.

With the difference that both 'reset --hard' and 'rm -rf' need a flag
to do their destructive work? Although 'git reset' might be just as
destructive if you've been using 'git add -p' a lot or something,
mhh...

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier