Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:

How about making "git checkout" default to HEAD if no revision is
supplied?  There's precedent for this in, say, git-diff (and I think a
few others).

Incidentally, "checkout <filename>" was also the way to do a revert
operation in CVS.  And the way to switch branches, too, iirc.  So git
isn't being too unusual here.  That said, the commands were
deliberately renamed in svn because CVS was considered largely insane.

The one thing I would worry about is the potential ambiguity if you do
something like "git checkout FOOBAR", and FOOBAR was both a branch
name as well as a file name.  How should it be interpreted?  I'd argue
the real problem was we conflated two distinct operations: "switching
to a new branch", and "reverting a file" to the same name, checkout.

Hence the suggestion to add a new command, "git revert-file", where
there would be no ambiguity.

							- Ted