Re: [RFC/GSoC] Introduction

Kevin Daudt [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:03:33AM +0530, Sidhant Sharma wrote:

quoted

Other than this, I also tried to expand the list of potentially destructive
commands and updated the list as follows (additions in brackets):

* git rebase [ git pull --rebase ]
* git reset --hard
* git clean -f
* git gc --prune=now --aggressive
* git push -f [ git push <remote> :<branch>, git push <remote> +<branch> ]
* [ git branch -D ]

Are these additions appropriate? What other commands should be included?

git checkout [ref] <file> is destructive too if it would overwrite an
uncomitted change.

Obviously.  As that was designed to be the way to get rid of
unsuccessful/unwanted edit in the working tree.

"git add <file>" is destructive if it overwrites the index entry
that holds contents you have not committed.

"git rm [--cached] <file>" is destructive, too.

I think "git checkout [<ref>] <file>" falls into the same category.