Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

Pavel Machek
2005-04-23T21:34:14Z

Hi!

> > > > Well, not sure.
> > > >
> > > > I did
> > > >
> > > > git track linus
> > > > git cancel
> > > >
> > > > but Makefile still contains -rc2. (Is "git cancel" right way to check
> > > > out the tree?)
> > >
> > > No. git cancel does what it says - cancels your local changes to the
> > > working tree. git track will only set that next time you pull from
> > > linus, the changes will be automatically merged. (Note that this will
> > > change with the big UI change.)
> >
> > Is there way to say "forget those changes in my repository, I want
> > just plain vanilla" without rm -rf?
>
> git cancel will give you "plain last commit". If you need plain vanilla,
> the "hard way" now is to just do
>
> commit-id >.git/HEAD
>
> but your current HEAD will be lost forever. Or do
>
> git fork vanilla ~/vanilla linus
>
> and you will have the vanilla tree tracking linus in ~/vanilla.

Yep, symlinked in nice way. Good trap; it cought me ;-). (I of course
deleted the original directory).

> I'm not yet sure if we should have some Cogito interface for doing this
> and what its semantics should be.

Perhaps "git init" is right command for this? Running it in non-empty
directory for faster restart after bad problem....
Pavel
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