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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke•info>
Cc: Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail•com>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/GSoC] Introduction
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:01:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfuvt8rws.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160313211910.GA22052@ikke.info> (Kevin Daudt's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:19:10 +0100")

Kevin Daudt <me@ikke•info> writes:

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-12  6:59 [RFC/GSoC] Introduction Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-13 15:50 ` Lars Schneider
2016-03-13 18:33   ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-13 21:19     ` Kevin Daudt
2016-03-14  5:25       ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-14  6:15         ` Jacob Keller
2016-03-14  7:01       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-03-13 23:28     ` Jacob Keller
2016-03-14  5:25       ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-14  6:14         ` Jacob Keller
2016-03-14 16:00           ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-14  6:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-14  8:16     ` Lars Schneider
2016-03-14 15:56       ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-20 20:17         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-03-14 17:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-20 20:28         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-03-14 21:08       ` Philip Oakley
2016-03-17 14:52   ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-20 15:39     ` Lars Schneider
2016-03-20 15:51       ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-20 16:08         ` Lars Schneider
2016-03-20 16:22           ` Sidhant Sharma
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-22 17:51 Philip Oakley

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