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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad git pull
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:21:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfyoshmp6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0512161007k38fdd15w2dcdf0c93f26d29e@mail.gmail.com> (Morten Welinder's message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:07:16 -0500")

Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> writes:

>> While I am sympathetic, this "Oops, I said pull when I meant
>> fetch" sounds remotely similar to "oops, I said 'rm -r' when I
>> meant to say 'ls -r'".  Is it that the tool is too fragile?
>
> Didn't bk come with some kind of (one-level) undo pull?  It should not
> be too hard to create something similar considering that one could
> just leave new objects in the db orphaned.

Yes, that is called "git reset".

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15 23:37 bad git pull Don Zickus
2005-12-15 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-15 23:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 15:39     ` Don Zickus
2005-12-16 17:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 17:25     ` Carl Baldwin
2005-12-16 19:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 18:07     ` Morten Welinder
2005-12-16 19:21       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-12-16 22:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  0:37           ` Morten Welinder
2005-12-17  1:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  1:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-17  7:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17  9:28                   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-17 21:04                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  3:02                       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-18  4:17                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  6:31                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-18  7:15                           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-18 17:16                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-17  2:19             ` Junio C Hamano

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