# Re: "git svn reset" only resets current branch ?

1 messages from 2009-07-08 to 2009-07-08. Participants: Yann Dirson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20055

## Yann Dirson, 2009-07-08 15:41

Subject: Re: "git svn reset" only resets current branch ?
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/50232.10.0.0.1.1247067661.squirrel%40intranet.linagora.com

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> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:01:08AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
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>> As an alternative, we could also allow "git svn reset" to take us back
>> into the future to undo any such mistake without refetching.
>
> You can't do that directly, since data is destroyed (specifically, the
> rev_map is truncated back to the selected revision).  However, you can
> "git reset" the branch back to where it was using the reflog, and then
> the next git-svn command you run will rebuild the rev_map from the
> comment metadata (obviously you're out of luck if you set "no_metadata").
>
> It's possible that "git-svn reset" should be saving something like
> ORIG_HEAD (comments welcome) but that does conflict with the idea of
> adding "--all" or defaulting to "--all" behavior.

Well, adding --all would probably be better after all.

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