Re: Feature request: make reset --hard add something to the reflog

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 19, 2025, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqjz6cmgt4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aCuMshOaqcuwMCpG@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

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> I don't know if we want this by default (although I could be convinced
> that we do), but I think this would actually be a great feature to add
> via a config option.  You are not the only person who has accidentally
> destroyed data with `git reset --hard` by any stretch of the
> imagination[0] and this would make that much less painful.

I do not offhand have a strong objection for the _feature_, but if the implementation uses the default "stash", that is a bit worrysome, as anybody, even a script, using "reset --hard" would add a new stash entry, shifting the end-user's expectation of what the Nth stash entry records behind user's back.

Doesn't "reset --hard" add record to the reflog already, by the way? I agree that a way to recover the local modifications that "reset --hard" is designed to get rid of is a good addition. I just do not know what the best vehicle to store the local modifications is.