Re: git-add + git-reset --hard = Arrrggh!

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

On 5/17/06, Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

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All I can say is I'm very happy that update-index does a lot more
than just update the index.  I was easily able to find the deleted
test by finding the most recently modified object in my .git/objects
directory and pulling it back out with git cat-file.  :-)

Maybe git-lost-found would help here?

Thanks!  I did that the hard way with git fsck-objects only to find
I actually had a lot of dangling objects.  Luckily the most recent
one was the one I was looking for so a quick pipe through perl and
ls -t found it quite quickly.

What would have really helped me was just using GIT properly
rather than slamming something in fast with `git reset --hard`.
Somehow that option has become part of my finger feel when using
reset and that's just not right.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.