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Subject: Re: Extend "git reset" to take a reset point
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:42:33 -0700
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How about saving the current HEAD to $GIT_DIR/OLD_HEAD just in
case?  Then after fixing up the files in the working tree, you
could say "git commit -m OLD_HEAD".