From: Geoffrey De Smet Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:59:36 GMT Subject: Re: git reset respect remote repo (make git idiot proof) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Op 03-10-12 18:40, Phil Hord schreef: > 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.