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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: reset: describe new "--keep" option
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:26:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003062026.11489.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306081034.GA4827@m62s10.vlinux.de>

On Saturday 06 March 2010 09:10:34 Peter Baumann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:25:36PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
> > and give an example to show how it can be used.
> >
> > +--keep::
> > +	Resets the index to match the tree recorded by the named commit,
> > +	but keep changes in the working tree. Aborts if the reset would
> > +	change files that are already modified in the working tree.
> > +
> 
> Huh? Keep changes (by not touching the worktree)

Keep uncommited changes in the working tree does not mean not touching the 
working tree.

> and then aborting if we
> touch the worktree.

We abort if the commit we reset touch some files that have uncommited changes.

> Seems like a contradiction to me.

There is no contradiction. We repeat "working tree" too much perhaps, but what 
is important is to focus on "changes" and "files".

Regards,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-06 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 20:25 [PATCH] Documentation: reset: describe new "--keep" option Christian Couder
2010-03-06  8:10 ` Peter Baumann
2010-03-06 19:26   ` Christian Couder [this message]
2010-03-08  8:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-08 11:31     ` Christian Couder
2010-03-07  5:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-07 20:38   ` Christian Couder
2010-03-08  8:47     ` Peter Baumann

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