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diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 9f69ae8b69..132f8e55f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ $ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4> ------------ + <1> You are happily working on something, and find the changes -in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them -when you run `git diff`, because you plan to work on other files -and changes with these files are distracting. + in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them + when you run `git diff`, because you plan to work on other files + and changes with these files are distracting. <2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sound worthy of merging. <3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does -not match the `HEAD` commit). But you know the pull you are going -to make does not affect `frotz.c` or `filfre.c`, so you revert the -index changes for these two files. Your changes in working tree -remain there. + not match the `HEAD` commit). But you know the pull you are going + to make does not affect `frotz.c` or `filfre.c`, so you revert the + index changes for these two files. Your changes in working tree + remain there. <4> Then you can pull and merge, leaving `frotz.c` and `filfre.c` -changes still in the working tree. + changes still in the working tree. Undo a commit and redo:: + @@ -137,12 +137,12 @@ $ git commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD <3> ------------ + <1> This is most often done when you remembered what you -just committed is incomplete, or you misspelled your commit -message, or both. Leaves working tree as it was before "reset". + just committed is incomplete, or you misspelled your commit + message, or both. Leaves working tree as it was before "reset". <2> Make corrections to working tree files. <3> "reset" copies the old head to `.git/ORIG_HEAD`; redo the -commit by starting with its log message. If you do not need to -edit the message further, you can give `-C` option instead. + commit by starting with its log message. If you do not need to + edit the message further, you can give `-C` option instead. + See also the `--amend` option to linkgit:git-commit[1]. @@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ $ git checkout topic/wip <3> ------------ + <1> You have made some commits, but realize they were premature -to be in the `master` branch. You want to continue polishing -them in a topic branch, so create `topic/wip` branch off of the -current `HEAD`. + to be in the `master` branch. You want to continue polishing + them in a topic branch, so create `topic/wip` branch off of the + current `HEAD`. <2> Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits. <3> Switch to `topic/wip` branch and keep working. @@ -169,10 +169,10 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3 <1> ------------ + <1> The last three commits (`HEAD`, `HEAD^`, and `HEAD~2`) were bad -and you do not want to ever see them again. Do *not* do this if -you have already given these commits to somebody else. (See the -"RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] for -the implications of doing so.) + and you do not want to ever see them again. Do *not* do this if + you have already given these commits to somebody else. (See the + "RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] + for the implications of doing so.) Undo a merge or pull:: + @@ -189,18 +189,18 @@ $ git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD <4> ------------ + <1> Try to update from the upstream resulted in a lot of -conflicts; you were not ready to spend a lot of time merging -right now, so you decide to do that later. + conflicts; you were not ready to spend a lot of time merging + right now, so you decide to do that later. <2> "pull" has not made merge commit, so `git reset --hard` -which is a synonym for `git reset --hard HEAD` clears the mess -from the index file and the working tree. + which is a synonym for `git reset --hard HEAD` clears the mess + from the index file and the working tree. <3> Merge a topic branch into the current branch, which resulted -in a fast-forward. + in a fast-forward. <4> But you decided that the topic branch is not ready for public -consumption yet. "pull" or "merge" always leaves the original -tip of the current branch in `ORIG_HEAD`, so resetting hard to it -brings your index file and the working tree back to that state, -and resets the tip of the branch to that commit. + consumption yet. "pull" or "merge" always leaves the original + tip of the current branch in `ORIG_HEAD`, so resetting hard to it + brings your index file and the working tree back to that state, + and resets the tip of the branch to that commit. Undo a merge or pull inside a dirty working tree:: + @@ -214,14 +214,14 @@ $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <2> ------------ + <1> Even if you may have local modifications in your -working tree, you can safely say `git pull` when you know -that the change in the other branch does not overlap with -them. + working tree, you can safely say `git pull` when you know + that the change in the other branch does not overlap with + them. <2> After inspecting the result of the merge, you may find -that the change in the other branch is unsatisfactory. Running -`git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD` will let you go back to where you -were, but it will discard your local changes, which you do not -want. `git reset --merge` keeps your local changes. + that the change in the other branch is unsatisfactory. Running + `git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD` will let you go back to where you + were, but it will discard your local changes, which you do not + want. `git reset --merge` keeps your local changes. 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