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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reset by checkout?
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:48:09 -0500
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Kevin Bracey wrote:
> Maybe we just need to tighten up the EXAMPLES section? Give it
> easy-to-locate <path>/--soft/--mixed/--keep subheadings, covering all
> those common use cases (in clean trees...), including a before/after
> git status views. Then normal users could skip the top technical
> section waffling about indexes and go straight there instead.

Or maybe we need to have sane options, like --stage, --work, and --keep.

-- 
Felipe Contreras