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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Git glossary: 'branch' and 'head' description
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 05:21:36 -0400
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David K?gedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> I noticed that some of this seems to be changing slightly with the
> introduction of branch logs, but I don't know how those are supposed
> to be used yet.

	$ git commit -a
	$ git pull . some/other-tag
	# go to lunch
	$ git pull . some/bad-stuff
	$ git commit -a
	# go home
	$ test...
	# realize this is all bad
	$ git reset --hard "master@{yesterday}"

:-)

Its really only useful for recording the history of your ref's state,
so you can 'undo' a bad merge that you might have done a few days
ago but not realized was bad until now.

-- 
Shawn.