From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset: allow --soft in a bare repo
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:02:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070715010215.GA20676@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7ip3jsf8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:33:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > since git-branch is usually used for _making_ a branch, whereas
> "branch -f" is very often used to "reset the branch tip". My
> git day typically begins with "branch -f pu next".
I think we just have a different perspective of what is "usual" here.
> Actually, after thinking about this a bit more, I have become
> somewhat reluctant, as this might confuse new users by giving
> them a wrong mental model of what "reset" is about.
OK, as I said on irc, I don't think this is a huge issue in the first
place, and your argument about encouraging a particular workflow for
git-reset makes some sense (even if that hasn't been my approach to
git-reset in the past).
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-15 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-14 4:49 [PATCH] git-reset: allow --soft in a bare repo Jeff King
2007-07-14 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 5:24 ` Jeff King
2007-07-14 8:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-15 1:02 ` Jeff King [this message]
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