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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull opinion
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:13:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1wb3i6nx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711061159240.4362@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:02:25 +0000 (GMT)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> A pull is just a fetch and a merge.  And a merge is a commit with more 
> than one parent.  So you can use the command "git reset --hard HEAD^" to 
> undo a merge, just as you can undo any other commit.

*DANGER*

A pull is usually just a fetch and a merge, but sometimes it can
fast forward.  ORIG_HEAD, not HEAD^, points at the previous HEAD
location in both cases.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05 21:52 git pull opinion Aghiles
2007-11-05 22:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-06  0:08   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06  4:22     ` Aghiles
2007-11-06 12:02       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 18:13         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-11-06 18:28           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-05 22:49 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-05 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06  0:36   ` Bill Lear
2007-11-06  0:46     ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06  7:38       ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-06  8:31         ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06  0:54     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-06  1:16       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06  8:59         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-06 12:05           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 12:08             ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-06  6:30     ` Aghiles
2007-11-06  7:40       ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-06 16:36       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-07 21:25         ` Aghiles
2007-11-08 15:27           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-10  0:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-06  0:37   ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-06  4:04   ` Aghiles
2007-11-05 23:40 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-11-06  4:16   ` Aghiles
2007-11-06  5:29     ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-06  7:34       ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 11:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 20:22           ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06  7:45       ` Aghiles
2007-11-06  8:51       ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-07  0:26         ` [PATCH] Mark 'git stash [message...]' as deprecated Brian Downing
2007-11-07  0:26           ` [PATCH] Disable implicit 'save' argument for 'git stash' Brian Downing
2007-11-07  8:00           ` [PATCH] Mark 'git stash [message...]' as deprecated Johannes Sixt
2007-11-07  8:12             ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-07  8:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-07  8:23           ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-06 18:07 ` git pull opinion Pascal Obry
2007-11-07  7:06   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-11-07  7:40     ` Pascal Obry

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