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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Add 'sane' mode to 'git reset'
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:03:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk5ag7l3w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812031634520.3256@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:39:49 -0800 (PST)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> The recovery procedure I would use in such a case (and I rarely pull while
>> managing git.git even though I do so in my day job) would be:
>> 
>> 	$ git checkout -b this-needs-more-work
>>      $ git checkout master
>
> No, that won't work. The second 'git checkout' does nothing, since 
> 'master' still has all the broken code in it.

Yeah, brain-o.  I should have said

	git checkout -b needs-more-work
        git branch -f master master~$n
        git checkout master

or something like that.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 17:30 Add 'sane' mode to 'git reset' Linus Torvalds
2008-12-01 17:44 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-12-01 18:04   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-01 18:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-03 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-04  0:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-04  2:00     ` [RFC/PATCH] Document "git-reset --merge" Junio C Hamano
2008-12-04  2:03     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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