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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] status: display "doing what" information in git status
From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy () grenoble-inp ! fr>
Date: 2011-05-06 19:15:26
Message-ID: vpqei4bvdwx.fsf () bauges ! imag ! fr
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Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:40:04PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > + const char * const merge_advice =
>> > + _("use \"git reset --hard\" to abort, or resolve conflicts and commit");
>>
>> I think that should be "git reset --merge" (which preserves files not
>> touched by the merge, and makes sure "git merge; git reset" doesn't
>> permanently loose data).
>
> Wow, I didn't know about that one, so /maybe/ the hint isn't that
> useless after all :)
Actually, there's very few reason to run "git reset --hard" these days,
and we should really consider it as a very dangerous command that should
not be advertized to beginners. There's almost always a safer
alternative:
* You want to cancel a merge => git reset --merge
(doesn't touch files not impacted by merges)
* You want to change the commit your HEAD points to => git reset --keep
(in case you have local changes, they won't be overridden)
* You want to discard local changes => git stash
(you may not think these changes are important, but you may be wrong)
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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