On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 6:32 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 5:08 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > from "man git-reset":
> > > >
> > > > SYNOPSIS
> > > > git reset [-q] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
> > > > git reset (--patch | -p) [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
> > > > git reset [--soft | --mixed [-N] | --hard | --merge | --keep] [-q] [<commit>]
> > > >
> > > > oddly, the third form says nothing about possible "<paths>", even
> > > > though i'm pretty sure they're valid in that third case (at least
> > > > for "--mixed"). thoughts? is that just an oversight in the man
> > > > page?
> > >
> > > --mixed prints a deprecation warning. I don't think it's worth
> > > making the synopsis more complicated for that. All other modes
> > > reject pathspec.
> >
> > i just tested this, and i don't see a deprecation warning.
>
> Hmm.. maybe I misread the code. I just tried it
>
> $ ./git reset --mixed HEAD foo
> warning: --mixed with paths is deprecated; use 'git reset -- <paths>' instead.
weird ... i just tried this two ways, explicitly specifying
"--mixed" and also without (which is the default mode, right?), and i
got the deprecated message with the first but not the second. that
seems ... odd.
rday
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