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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@gulfsat.mg>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reverting vs resetting
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:41:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwryskrbi.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1vh0jh0p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu\, 04 Feb 2010 23\:09\:10 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 	git branch andy_failed_experiment
>         git reset --hard HEAD~50
> 	;# and perhaps revert Bob's change here as well

So would I, and to complement Junio's answer: keeping a failure
followed by a repair means this experiment will appear more or less
forever in the output of "git log", "git blame", will break "git
bisect" on that part of history, and so on. Putting it on a separate
branch avoids this, and keeps it in a safe place to show newcommers:
"see, here's what you should not do" ;-).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-05 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-05  6:12 reverting vs resetting Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-02-05  6:48 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-05  7:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05  8:41     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-02-05 11:21       ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby

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