Re: undoing something

"John Dlugosz" [off-list ref] writes:

=== Re: ===
The answer was best only because in your previous question you wanted to
ensure fast-forwardness, i.e. "git push . origin/dev:dev" without plus
in
front to cause it to fail if it is not fast-forward.
=== end ===

This is offtopic, but *PLEASE* notice that nobody else quotes like this
around here.  I find the style of quoting makes it unnecessarily harder to
skip over parts that others wrote (and I've already read---so I do not
want to waste my time on re-reading them) to get to what you are adding to
the discussion quickly, and extremely annoying.  It is the reason why I am
skipping many of your replies to other people without reading to the end,
even when I suspect you might be saying something worth reading.

No, I don't want to ensure ff.

I was referring to the exchange that started with this message from you:

From: "John Dlugosz" <redacted>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:04:25 -0500
Message-ID: [ref]

where you asked:

I want to advocate running

        git fetch

as being a safe thing to do at any time, just to refresh your view of
the origin and not mess up any of your local labels.  That is, you can
see the difference between the local dev and the origin/dev.

So, after inspecting the changes, how do you fast-forward your local dev
to sync up with origin/dev?

and I gave you an answer (with a typo you corrected in another message
today) "git push . origin/dev:dev".  In that context, you clearly want to
encure fast-forward, and local push without + is an easy and safe way to
do so.

That is where "it is best only because" came from.  If you are not
interested in ensuring fast-forward, "local push" may not be best, and
there are other ways (I've shown you at least two, so I won't repeat
them) to choose from.