Since the operation in progress is merge, stick to the 'git merge' variant of aborting. 'git reset --hard' does not really tell you about aborting the merge by just looking, longer to type, and even though I know by heart what --hard do, I still dislike it when I need to consider whether --hard, --mixed or --soft. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 94799faa2b..4e210970e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ If you get stuck and decide to just give up and throw the whole mess away, you can always return to the pre-merge state with ------------------------------------------------- -$ git reset --hard HEAD +$ git merge --abort ------------------------------------------------- Or, if you've already committed the merge that you want to throw away, -- 2.21.0.854.ge34a79f761
