From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Shoemaker Subject: Re: Now What? Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:43:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20051103014307.GA1988@pe.Belkin> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 03 02:44:52 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXU8P-0000Fm-6s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:43:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030256AbVKCBnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:43:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030260AbVKCBnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:43:18 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.240.36]:42403 "EHLO eastrmmtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030256AbVKCBnR (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:43:17 -0500 Received: from localhost ([24.250.31.7]) by eastrmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051103014227.WIGQ2767.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@localhost>; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:42:27 -0500 Received: from chris by localhost with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EXU8B-0000WW-RX; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:43:07 -0500 To: Jon Loeliger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 07:30:37PM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > The Other Day, I offered to help write up some parts of > a "Something weird just happened. Now What?" document. > > So, I'm now soliciting suggestions and/or tips that can > be thrown together to form the basis of that document. > > I have a few ideas and a rough outline up my sleeve, but > I am curious to know what _you_ think needs to be covered. "I cloned a remote repo. Then I pulled a branch from the remote repo and it started changing all the these files. I paniced and hit ctrl-c. Doh! I should have checked out the branch locally before pulling. Now what? How can I recover without cloning the repo again?" In general, for each common operation, it'd be nice to explain how to "undo". -chris