Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:03:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Of course Thomas could have simply done "reset" and started from scratch,
> > so in that sense nothing is destructive, but we are not talking about the
> > kind of destructive operations you cannot possibly recover without typing
> > everything again.
>
> I'm not that concerned about these type of destructive operations, which
> might waste a few seconds or a minute of your time. But Thomas' original
> email indicated he was using "git checkout -p", which _is_ destructive
> in a much bigger way, because a "y" overwrites worktree files which do
> not otherwise have a backup (even "reset -p" leaves unreferenced blobs
> that used to be in the index).
Indeed. I wouldn't be complaining if I typed "a" or "y", but
'checkout -p' trashed all my changes to a file because it treated the
up-arrow as an "a". We should not accidentally "bind" things to extra
keys, much less dangerous ones. The fact that up-arrow is ^[[A is an
implementation detail.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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