From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>,
Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: create meaningful aliases for git reset's hard/soft/mixed
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:45:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buowrafxvq9.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112020826.14114.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>> > I remember them as:
>> > --soft -> git uncommit
>> > --mixed -> git unadd
>> > --hard -> git undo
>>
>> I don't particular like these names, but conceptually they are helpful.
>
> I think all of these, but the last one in particular, are *very*
> dangerous oversimplifications. Doubly so if you then use "undo" with
> a revision argument.
I agree. Not only is it completely wrong when used with a revision
argument, but "undo" is so vague that it's probably useless for _any_
git command, much less one so dangerous as "reset --hard".
-miles
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-23 8:28 Proposal: create meaningful aliases for git reset's hard/soft/mixed Philippe Vaucher
2011-11-23 8:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-11-23 11:32 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-12-18 6:24 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-11-23 12:02 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-23 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-23 23:00 ` Philippe Vaucher
2011-12-01 21:23 ` Phil Hord
2011-12-02 7:26 ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-02 7:45 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-12-02 15:28 ` Phil Hord
2011-12-02 14:27 ` Philippe Vaucher
2011-12-02 15:38 ` Phil Hord
2011-12-06 7:34 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-10-03 16:23 ` Phil Hord
2012-10-03 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-03 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-15 18:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-01 21:02 ` Phil Hord
2012-12-18 6:34 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-12-18 15:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-18 16:30 ` Jeff King
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