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From: "John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nanako Shiraishi" <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@gnu.org>,
	"Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: undoing something
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:08:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF242@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtz5ssk0s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> The documentation is indeed wrong.  It is more like "create a new
> branch,
> or if the named branch already exists, reset the tip of it".  

Awesome.  Then  git branch -f name newpos  is exactly what I need.  

I wondered why something that should be so simple, and is available from
every GUI, is not easy from the command line.

--John


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 19:06 undoing something John Dlugosz
2009-03-16 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-16 19:48   ` John Dlugosz
2009-03-16 20:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-16 20:51       ` Effective Posting John Dlugosz
2009-03-16 21:29         ` René Scharfe
2009-03-16 21:38           ` John Dlugosz
2009-03-16 22:21         ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-16 22:36           ` John Dlugosz
2009-03-16 21:45     ` (unknown), Nanako Shiraishi
2009-03-17  7:09       ` undoing something Junio C Hamano
2009-03-17 14:06         ` [PATCH] git-branch.txt: document -f correctly Michael J Gruber
2009-03-17 16:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-17 16:46             ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-17 15:08         ` John Dlugosz [this message]

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