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Re: [PATCH] git-reset --hard: tell the user what the HEAD was reset to

From: Andy Whitcroft <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:47

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
---

	On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

	> It would be nice if git-reset printed 
	> 
	>  HEAD is now <sha1> - <excerpt of commit message>

	This patch does that, but only for --reset.

	Without reset, HEAD is _not_ changed, just the contents of the
	working directory and/or the index.

 git-reset.sh |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-reset.sh b/git-reset.sh
index 8d95e37..2379db0 100755
--- a/git-reset.sh
+++ b/git-reset.sh
@@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ update_ref_status=$?
 
 case "$reset_type" in
 --hard )
-	;; # Nothing else to do
+	test $update_ref_status = 0 && {
+		echo -n "HEAD is now at "
+		GIT_PAGER= git log --max-count=1 --pretty=oneline \
+			--abbrev-commit HEAD
+	}
+	;;
 --soft )
 	;; # Nothing else to do
 --mixed )
Ok, this sounds like a good change in principle, but the output format
it introduces seems likely to cause confusion.  For sure the first
couple of times I saw it I though there was a bug and I was seeing an
error from the plumbing.  See below for an example where you would swear
something bad had occured.

  apw@pinky$ git checkout -b bar master
  apw@pinky$ git reset --hard ac9c1108d8915f0937795e354ad72c4ae6890a3f
  HEAD is now at ac9c110... git-fetch: remove .keep file at the end.

Huh, fetch?  Remove what .keep file?  Did I do a fetch?  What?

I think we need to delimit the name better, probabally we need to quote
it.  Perhaps something like:

  HEAD is now at ac9c110: "git-fetch: remove .keep file at the end".

-apw
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