Re: git reset respect remote repo (make git idiot proof)

From: Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2012, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID: <k4jj5n$72b$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABURp0qVWg2PvD4PcjJ9q45x9WxJCuJEQL8Rze=qerWXg72Txw@mail.gmail.com>

Op 03-10-12 18:40, Phil Hord schreef:

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> But I feel your pain.  I think the solution lies in relegating 'reset'
> to the plumbing or the power-user realm of commands since I feel it is
> quite overloaded and sometimes dangerous.  There was a thread some
> months back heading in this direction, but I failed to keep it going.
>
>      http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185825

I personally use git reset a lot:
- Try an experiment
- Commit a few commits as the experiment progresses
- figure out that the experiment is a dead end
- git reset all those _local_ commits

The point is: they are local commits, so no harm done. But there's nothing preventing me from resetting pushed commits too, which would mean harm.