Re: EasyGit Integration

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jakub Narebski[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Nope. 'git reset' always reset some part of state to a given commit,
HEAD by default.  It can reset current branch with --soft, branch plus
index with --mixed (default), and branch plus index plus working
directory with --hard.  Source is always commit.

You said it: 'git reset --hard' gets something out of the repository
and into the working directory.

Try this:
git checkout <random sha-1 with no ref>

Then what is the difference between:
git checkout HEAD^
git reset --hard HEAD^

In this case they do exactly the same thing, don't they?

No, they don't.  "git checkout HEAD^" modifies HEAD detaching it.
"git reset --hard HEAD^" modifies branch that HEAD points to (well,
unless HEAD is detached).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland