From: "Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com>
To: "Miklos Vajna" <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: "Jeff Whiteside" <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>,
"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
"Changsheng Jiang" <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard"
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:49:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <279b37b20809111649h77666a46u362dddfa1b40e0ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080911233941.GP4829@genesis.frugalware.org>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:24:51PM -0700, Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My question is why "git reset --hard" can't make a special case for
>> _newly added_ tracked files. After all, "git status" knows that they're
>> "new files", and "git reset --hard" could realize that wiping them off
>> the face of the earth isn't the most helpful thing possible.
>
> I rarely need this, but I use 'git read-tree -m HEAD' before git reset
> --hard in case I want such a behaviour.
What advantages does "git read-tree -m HEAD" have over "git reset" or
"git rm --cached <file list>"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 19:12 RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard" Eric Raible
[not found] ` <eafc0afe0809101912v72916d3hce9ae5d6812f0db8@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-11 2:14 ` Changsheng Jiang
2008-09-11 2:38 ` Elijah Newren
2008-09-11 20:50 ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-11 22:19 ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 23:04 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-09-11 23:29 ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 2:46 ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 6:05 ` Changsheng Jiang
2008-09-11 6:15 ` RFC: perhaps a Eric Raible
2008-09-11 16:32 ` RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard" Elijah Newren
[not found] ` <3ab397d0809111022m24c81bd9y2520f6be478babd3@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-11 21:24 ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 23:39 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-11 23:49 ` Eric Raible [this message]
2008-09-12 15:41 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-11 6:14 ` Mike Hommey
2008-09-11 20:26 ` Eric Raible
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