Dangers of reset --hard (Re: Implicit stashes)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



John Tapsell wrote:

> $ git reset --hard
>
> I know this seems very explicit to delete changes, but I myself have
> done this and accidentally lost changes.  For example, I write a unit
> test and don't commit it in on purpose because I know that it
> currently fails and I want to test it against older versions.  I
> carefully git checkout older versions to find if the unit test fails,
> then in stupidity reset back to origin/master ..

Aside: I assume you already know about it, but still I cannot help but
take the opportunity to advertise ‘git reset --keep’.  I was added
fairly recently (1.7.1 rc0) and I find myself annoyed when on machines
without it because of almost exactly this use case.

Stephan and Christian: thanks for writing it.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]