Re: 'git checkout -f' versus 'git reset --hard'

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:36:09AM -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
> 
> > After a failed merge, I want to undo things.  I typically use git
> > reset --hard, and it works like a charm.  Others have tried to use git
> > checkout -f, but I have cautioned that git reset --hard is really the
> > way to do it.  Is there a difference here, or are they equivalent?
> 
> Skimming through the code (and looking at the output of sh -x), it looks
> like both just end up executing git-read-tree --reset -u $HEAD.

Sure, but git-reset also whacks MERGE_MSG, rr-cache/MERGE_RR,
SQUASH_MSG, SQUASH_HEAD.  Maybe checkout should do the same.

I guess checkout -f is fine, and does the job, but usually we say
reset --hard.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.
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