Re: [PATCH 2/2] Re: rebase -i: explain how to discard all commits

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

(I for one have never accepted such a rebase; if the TODO only 
consists of noop, that means I made a mistake.)

Wouldn't that suggest us that if we were to do anything to this message 
it would be a good idea to teach the user to "reset --hard" the branch 
if no commits truly needs to be replayed on top of the onto-commit?

The important difference between rebase -i && noop on the one, and reset 
--hard on the other hand is that the latter is completely unsafe. I mean, 
utterly completely super-unsafe. And I say that because _this here 
developer_ who is not exactly a Git noob lost stuff that way.

rebase -i checks that all is well and we could come back to the current 
status later if we realized that things went horribly wrong.

reset --hard does not do that. No safety net. No reflog. Nada.

Hth,
Dscho