Instead of, fatal: mixed reset is not allowed in a bare repository print, fatal: mixed reset is not allowed in a bare repository, use --soft To tell the user what they can do, instead of just what they can't. --- When I was first learning how to use git and I needed to reset my bare repository I would make it a full repository just so I could use git-reset, a message like the above would have saved me effort back then. builtin/reset.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/reset.c b/builtin/reset.c index 1283068..ebbefe0 100644 --- a/builtin/reset.c +++ b/builtin/reset.c @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ int cmd_reset(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) setup_work_tree(); if (reset_type == MIXED && is_bare_repository()) - die("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository", + die("%s reset is not allowed in a bare repository, use --soft", reset_type_names[reset_type]); /* Soft reset does not touch the index file nor the working tree -- 1.7.1 -- 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