From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:34:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git reset --hard <commit> superfluous?
Message-ID: <slrnglu1ms.63u.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090103011319.GA24149@seberino.org>

On 2009-01-03, chris@seberino.org <chris@seberino.org> wrote:
> git reset --hard <commit>
> "resets" the current branch head.
>
> Is this equivalent to deleting the branch
> and doing
>
> git branch <branch> <commit> ??
>
> So "git reset --hard" is syntactic sugar and 'unnecessary' right?

only if you don't have any local changes to the work tree or
the index :-)

If you do, however, the reset throws them away, while the
longer method tries to preserves them, to the point of not
letting you switch if there are too many changes.