From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>,
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out.
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:16:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107081608.GA19066@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711062225090.4362@racer.site>
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:25:48PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > tisdag 06 november 2007 skrev Mike Hommey:
> > > Maybe the documentation could emphasise on how to undo things when the
> > > user makes mistakes.
> > > Sometimes, saving your repo can be as simple as git reset --hard HEAD@{1}.
> > > This is not, unfortunately, a works-for-all-cases command.
> >
> > Yea, git-undo(7).
>
> In related news, I know a few users who need an un-rm-rf. Anyone?
The fact is you can do harm to your repo with things you wouldn't expect to
break things, except maybe you gave bad arguments or so. It's quite easy to
fuck up with git-rebase, or to merge the wrong commits, etc.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-05 19:01 [PATCH] git-revert is one of the most misunderstood command in git, help users out Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-05 19:04 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-05 19:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-05 19:10 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-05 19:28 ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-05 19:50 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-05 21:54 ` Alejandro Martinez Ruiz
2007-11-05 22:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-05 23:41 ` Alejandro Martinez Ruiz
2007-11-05 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-05 23:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 0:08 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 2:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 3:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 4:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 8:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 9:29 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-06 9:37 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 18:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 19:39 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 22:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 20:06 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-06 20:13 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-06 21:21 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-06 22:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 8:16 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-11-07 11:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 19:32 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-07 20:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-07 9:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-06 11:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 11:51 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-11-06 12:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 12:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 12:48 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 17:43 ` Wincent Colaiuta
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