Re: About detached heads

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

I thought my question was trivial, but judging by the number of answers, clearly
not!

I understand "git read-tree -u -m 3 ; git commit" and it does exactly
what I want.

The context where I want to use this is for users who update files,
can understand
"take me back to the state I was in at 4pm yesterday before I mucked up
my data" but who don't want to know about merging, branching, topics, etc, etc,
But of course having taken them back to the 4pm commit, they then realise that
they really need the 6pm commit or perhaps the 3pm commit. So anything which
just throws away commits would be risky.

The "git read-tree -u -m 3; git commit" allows me to present a simple
straight line
view of the data, which is perfect for the people I'm dealing with.

Many thanks to you all,

Cheers,
Geoff Russell