From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7vod5pxknh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <48620C1A.6000509@panasas.com> <486220CE.3070103@viscovery.net> <20080625135100.GF20361@mit.edu> <7v63rx2zwf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080625195003.GB15077@mit.edu> <32541b130806251304u39c8ffdenc52904391aebd089@mail.gmail.com> <20080625203822.GA7827@mit.edu> <7v8wwtz1c1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080625210535.GA8610@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Avery Pennarun , Johannes Schindelin , Johannes Sixt , Boaz Harrosh , Steven Walter , git@vger.kernel.org, jeske@google.com To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 25 23:37:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBcfk-0008Gt-51 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:37:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752734AbYFYVgE (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:36:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752748AbYFYVgD (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:36:03 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:51611 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbYFYVgB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:36:01 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011628430; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B6B3842C; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080625210535.GA8610@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:05:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B2CD9BA0-42FE-11DD-A843-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso writes: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I just replied to Avery about that. -- is always the way to disambiguate >> between refs (that come before --) and paths (that come after --), not >> limited to "git checkout" but with other commands such as "git log", "git >> diff", etc. > > Stupid quesiton --- where is this documented? I don't see this > documented either in the man page for git or git-checkout. You are asking a wrong person. My git knowledge mostly comes from yearlong reading of the mailing list articles, and doing a bit myself also helps ;-).