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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset
	--hard"
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:39:41 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:24:51PM -0700, Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is why "git reset --hard" can't make a special case for
> _newly added_ tracked files.  After all, "git status" knows that they're
> "new files", and "git reset --hard" could realize that wiping them off
> the face of the earth isn't the most helpful thing possible.

I rarely need this, but I use 'git read-tree -m HEAD' before git reset
--hard in case I want such a behaviour.

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