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From: Salikh Zakirov <Salikh.Zakirov@Intel.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:47:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eicpch$7ar$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbqnq51v4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In other words, I do not have a good explanation on what "git
> reset [--hard|--mixed] <commit> <path>..." does that I can write
> in the documentation.

In my humble opinion, git-reset is somewhat overloaded in functionality,
and it takes time to explain its function to git newbies.

Why not split it into two commands, e.g.

  git-rewind for manipulations with HEAD
  git-reset for manipulations with index and working copy only

?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-26 15:41 Restore a single file in the index back to HEAD Andy Parkins
2006-10-26 15:42 ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27  7:27   ` Andy Parkins
2006-10-27  7:38     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27  8:01       ` Andy Parkins
2006-10-27  8:08       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-27  8:15         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-27  9:45           ` Alex Riesen
2006-10-27  9:50             ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-10-27 10:02               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-27 17:45                 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-11-01  7:58                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-01  8:07                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01  8:34                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01  9:09                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-01 11:22                         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-01  9:38                       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-01  8:39                     ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01  8:56                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01  9:53                         ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 18:28                           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 20:29                             ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 20:49                               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 21:18                                 ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 22:08                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01 23:09                                     ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 23:39                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-02  8:44                                         ` Andy Parkins
2006-11-01 22:27                                 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-11-02 12:47                                 ` Salikh Zakirov [this message]
2006-10-27  9:03 ` [PATCH] Added description for inverting git-update-index using --index-info Andy Parkins

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