From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:08:31 GMT
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Message-ID: <m31w2mlki4.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <48612CB0.2070303@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> writes:


> Sorry
> git-reset --clean -f/-n for removing local changes
> git reset --hard for moving HEAD on a clean tree only

Wouldn't "git reset <commit-ish>" be enough then?  It modifies where
current branch points to (as opposed to git-checkout modifying what is
the current branch), and it modifies index.  What it doesn't modify is
working directory, but it is clean already.

So the solution is: don't use `--hard'.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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