Re: git reset --hard include/linux/config.h

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:

> Now git reset is maybe supposed to work on commit level only, but it
> would have been nice if it erroroed out when it saw an argument that
> it did not know about. In this case I assume git reset used
> "include/linux/config.h" as <commitish>.

There is an attempt to have that check, but obviously it is
busted.  Thanks for noticing.

Maybe something like this is needed instead.

-- >8 --
git-reset: complain and exit upon seeing an unknown parameter.

The check to use "rev-parse --verify" was defeated by the use of
"--default HEAD".  "git reset --hard bogus-committish" just
defaulted to reset to the HEAD without complaining.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
diff --git a/git-reset.sh b/git-reset.sh
index 46451d0..5c02240 100755
--- a/git-reset.sh
+++ b/git-reset.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ case "$1" in
         usage ;;
 esac
 
-rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify --default HEAD "$@") || exit
+case $# in
+0) rev=HEAD ;;
+1) rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$1") || exit ;;
+*) usage ;;
+esac
 rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify $rev^0) || exit
 
 # We need to remember the set of paths that _could_ be left