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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@jdub.homelinux.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: "merge" branch reset in powerpc.git tree
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:28:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151090913.22158.5.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606232124.52879.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 21:24 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 21:10, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > git reset --hard 5fa21d821f6972e70942f2c555ec29dde962bdb2
> > 
> > That will reset the branch to the commit ID.  NOTE:  If you have local
> > changes on top, they will be wiped out.
> > 
> > There might be a way to do it without losing local changes, but I'm a
> > git idiot myself still.
> > 
> My understanding is that you are not supposed to have local changes
> on the branch you are pulling into, but have another branch for
> merging the remote tree with your own changes.

True.  But there is nothing to prevent people from doing it.  So I was
just warning them :).

josh

      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-23 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-23 11:44 "merge" branch reset in powerpc.git tree Paul Mackerras
2006-06-23 16:48 ` Dave C Boutcher
2006-06-23 19:10   ` Josh Boyer
2006-06-23 19:24     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-06-23 19:28       ` Josh Boyer [this message]

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