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authorLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2019-04-25 16:45:57 +0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-05-07 13:04:48 +0900
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user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
Since the operation in progress is merge, stick to the 'git merge' variant of aborting. 'git reset --hard' does not really tell you about aborting the merge by just looking, longer to type, and even though I know by heart what --hard do, I still dislike it when I need to consider whether --hard, --mixed or --soft. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ If you get stuck and decide to just give up and throw the whole mess
away, you can always return to the pre-merge state with
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-$ git reset --hard HEAD
+$ git merge --abort
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Or, if you've already committed the merge that you want to throw away,