From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 10:50:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ob1pyib2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqioryrvwg.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:38:39 +0100")
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> $ git status
> On branch master
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
> $
ok, you've lost your conflict resolutions.
>> In fact, it now seems that 'git reset --mixed' is always the same as
>> 'git reset --merge'. So I must be missing something!
>
> "git reset --merge" is an alias for "git merge --abort" (IIRC, it's
> actually the other way around). Essentially, it reverts, or tries to
> revert everything (worktree and index) as it was before the merge. That
> includes throwing away conflict resolution.
Ok.
> Now, I do agree that the documentation of "git reset" is terrible,
Ok, good.
So is this a sufficient bug report to request that the documentation be
fixed? (I obviously don't know enough to even think about submitting a
patch).
--
-- Stephe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-01 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 18:06 [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 1/3] wt-status: Make conflict hint message more consistent with other hints Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 23:07 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 2/3] merge: Add hints to tell users about "git merge --abort" Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:16 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 15:30 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 20:51 ` Andrew Wong
2014-03-05 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-05 18:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 18:06 ` [RFC 3/3] reset: Change the default behavior to use "--merge" during a merge Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 18:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:15 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-26 23:37 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-27 0:00 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-11 4:39 ` Andrew Wong
2014-02-26 20:26 ` [RFC 0/3] Make git more user-friendly during a merge conflict Jonathan Nieder
2014-02-28 9:01 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 9:14 ` Charles Bailey
2014-02-28 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 14:13 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 14:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:26 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 17:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-01 10:32 ` Stephen Leake
2014-03-01 11:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01 16:50 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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