Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In cases where HEAD is not supposed to be updated, there is no reason
> that "git reset" should require a commit, a tree should be enough. So
> make "git reset $rev^{tree}" work just like "git reset $rev", except
> that the former will not update HEAD (since there is no commit to
> point it to).
That is a horrible design I have to nack, unless you require
pathspec. You cannot tell what "git reset $sha1" would do without
checking the type of the object $sha1 refers to. If you do this
only when pathspec is present, then the design is very reasonable.
> Disallow --soft with trees, since that is about updating only HEAD.
Likewise.
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