Re: undoing changes with git-checkout -f

Junio C Hamano wrote:

lamikr [off-list ref] writes:

 

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1) I clone git repo by using command

   git-clone rsync://source.mvista.com/git/linux-omap-2.6.git
linux-omap-2.6
   

Please do not use rsync:// transport if possible (mvista might
only pubilsh via rsync:// and not git://, so it may not be your fault).
 

Ok, I will send a message to maintainer. I was just pasting the address
from their instructions. (They were using cogito on top of git, but I
want to learn to use pure git commands first)

Nothing.  After the second step, git does not know anything
about 1.txt; if it is a part of something you wanted to
eventually commit, or it is some notes you took while perusing
the source and is precious even when you switch branches (even
though you would not commit it as part of the project) , so it
does not touch it.  After running "make", "checkout -f" does not
do "make clean" for you to remove *.o files either, for exactly
the same reason.

"git status" would tell you the file is "untracked".

If you did something like this:

$ edit 1.txt
       $ git add 1.txt
       $ git reset --hard

"git reset --hard" would remove it, while "git checkout -f"
would leave the file behind.
 

Ok, so this describes the power difference between "checkout -f"
and "git-reset --hard" pretty well.

BTW, please do not set Reply-To: (or Mail-Followup-To: for that
matter) to the list.  When I (or somebody else) want to reply
to you, especially in private, your Reply-To: header forces me
to manually rewrite the To: header MUA prepares for me.

I know why you do it --- you are on the list and otherwise you
would get duplicate messages, one from me directly and another
from the list.  I've seen other people do it, but IMNSHO it is a
bad practice.  Filter them on your end, and do not put extra
burden to others, please.  The only case mucking with the
addressee headers may be acceptable is to remove yourself from
CC: list when a list you are on is on the CC: list.
 

Yes, I am a victim of graphical email reader aka "thunderbird".
But I will now remember to do this for vger mailing lists.

A little off topic, but I just wish that http mail archive apps like the
one used in
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
could also offer possibility to filter duplicates away.

Mika