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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git checkout -f' versus 'git reset --hard'
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:43:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405134311.GA18163@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17940.64329.10165.993967@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:36:09AM -0500, Bill Lear wrote:

> After a failed merge, I want to undo things.  I typically use git
> reset --hard, and it works like a charm.  Others have tried to use git
> checkout -f, but I have cautioned that git reset --hard is really the
> way to do it.  Is there a difference here, or are they equivalent?

Skimming through the code (and looking at the output of sh -x), it looks
like both just end up executing git-read-tree --reset -u $HEAD.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 13:36 'git checkout -f' versus 'git reset --hard' Bill Lear
2007-04-05 13:43 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-04-05 15:29   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-05 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds

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