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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Message from git reset: confusing?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:07:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908051107o5df3a780j7481bc364ae3062d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130908051042x5308e8fte7b3ead6bf1f24ee@mail.gmail.com>

> Even if people don't know what "M" means on day 1 (although hopefully
> they don't need "git reset" on day 1), at least it doesn't look like
> an error message.

Actually for newbies, git reset is pretty much the first thing they
learn to try to undo the mess that they created.

Almost the very first thing a newbie to git does is something like:

$ git checkout experimental_branch
<modify file>
$ git commit
..
(what do you mean I've committed to a detached head?  why is
everything going wrong?  what's happening!!)

$ git reset

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 15:25 Message from git reset: confusing? Matthieu Moy
2009-08-05 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-05 17:42   ` Avery Pennarun
2009-08-05 18:07     ` John Tapsell [this message]
2009-08-05 18:25     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-08-06  9:42       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-06 19:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-07 20:24           ` [PATCH 1/2] Rename REFRESH_SAY_CHANGED to REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN Matthieu Moy
2009-08-07 20:24             ` [PATCH 2/2 (v2)] reset: make the output more user-friendly Matthieu Moy
2009-08-07 21:20               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-08  7:44                 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-17 17:31                   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-17 19:50                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21  8:57                     ` [PATCH 1/2] Rename REFRESH_SAY_CHANGED to REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN Matthieu Moy
2009-08-21  8:57                       ` [PATCH 2/2 (v3)] reset: make the output more user-friendly Matthieu Moy
2009-08-22  5:44                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-22  7:52                           ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-23  2:33                             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-23 10:42                               ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-23 11:45                                 ` Reece Dunn

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