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Re: What does git reset do?

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RGRon Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 08:24 UTC
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In article <op.u7hpv8nd4oyyg1@localhost.localdomain>,
 "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:
> > So... what does git reset do?
> 
> Sets the current head (and branch, if not detached) to the specified  
> commit...
Ah.  It's the "and branch" part that I was missing.  Thanks!

Hm... maybe "detached head" is not as inappropriate a term as I first thought. When you checkout a branch, HEAD really is "attached" to the branch insofar as the branch head gets "dragged along" on commits and resets. (Have I got that right?)

rg
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