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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: Better warning message on git reset --mixed
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:49:13 -0500
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If you want to reset the index at selected paths, don't use any optio=
n, as
> nothing but --mixed makes sense.  Hence we deprecated use of --mixed =
when
> used this way.  But if _it_ makes sense, why deprecate it?  What harm
> would it do if we took it silently?

Nothing major.  It would be the same inconsistency as we currently have
between "checkout <commit> -- <pathspec>" and "checkout <commit> --":
one updates the HEAD (or rather, for "reset", the current branch),
while the other doesn=E2=80=99t.

So my preference is to make "reset --foo" not take a pathspec, but it
is not a strong one.