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diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 6af3a4fdb..02048918b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -42,6 +42,76 @@ OPTIONS <commit-ish>:: Commit to make the current HEAD. +Examples +~~~~~~~~ + +Undo a commit and redo:: ++ +------------ +$ git commit ... +$ git reset --soft HEAD^ <1> +$ edit <2> +$ 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". +<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. +------------ + +Undo commits permanently:: ++ +------------ +$ git commit ... +$ 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. +------------ + +Undo a commit, making it a topic branch:: ++ +------------ +$ git branch topic/wip <1> +$ git reset --hard HEAD~3 <2> +$ 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. +<2> Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits. +<3> Switch to "topic/wip" branch and keep working. +------------ + +Undo update-index:: ++ +------------ +$ edit <1> +$ git-update-index frotz.c filfre.c +$ mailx <2> +$ git reset <3> +$ 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. +<2> somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds 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 nor 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. +------------ + + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |