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Re: Mistake in git-reset documentation

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Oct 28, 2012, 13:39 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:36:10AM +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
>
>>  DESCRIPTION
>>  -----------
>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p`, i.e.
>>  you can use it to selectively reset hunks. See the ``Interactive Mode''
>>  section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
>>  
>> -'git reset' --<mode> [<commit>]::
>> +'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
>>  	This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and
>>  	possibly updates the index (resetting it to the tree of <commit>) and
>>  	the working tree depending on <mode>, which
>
> Should we say something like "if --<mode> is omitted, defaults to
> "--mixed"?
Under --mixed it already says "This is the default action", though.
Andreas.
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  1. Bojan PetrovićOct 27, 2012
  2. Krzysztof MazurOct 28, 2012
  3. Bojan PetrovićOct 28, 2012
  4. Jeff KingOct 28, 2012
  5. Andreas SchwabOct 28, 2012
  6. Jeff KingOct 28, 2012
  7. Krzysztof MazurOct 28, 2012
  8. Jeff KingOct 29, 2012

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