On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "George Spelvin" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I understand that "git reset --soft" makes no sense with a path, but >> why not --hard? > > I do not think there is anything fundamentally wrong for wishing for > "reset --hard <pathspec>". It probably is just that nobody needed > it, because "git checkout HEAD <pathspec>" is a 99% acceptable > substitute for it (the only case where it makes a difference is when > you added a path to the index that did not exist in HEAD). > Personally, I would like to see this simply given the number of times that I use git reset --hard <path> and then realize I should have used git checkout instead. I conceptually think reset --hard should do that, and that checkout is really not meant to do that as a concept. I may have some time to try and give this a look in the next few days... Regards, Jake -- 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