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Subject: git reset --hard <commit> superfluous?
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David

git reset --hard <commit>
"resets" the current branch head.

Is this equivalent to deleting the branch
and doing

git branch <branch> <commit> ??

So "git reset --hard" is syntactic sugar and 'unnecessary' right?

cs