Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead
Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead
When I started learning Git, I found many references covering two ways to undo commits with git reset:
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If you’re using reset with uncommitted changes and you’re not intentionally throwing them away, you’re doing something wrong.
git reset —hardmeans “fuck everything, set the state to X”. I only ever use it when I want to throw away the current state.Well yeah I think the point is you're human and you might make a mistake.
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git reset --keepwould just make more work since I'll have to throw away uncommitted changes anyways. Removing uncommitted changes is kind of the whole point, it is called 'reset' after all. If I want to preserve uncommitted changes, I'll either stash them or commit them to a temporary branch. That has the added benefit of adding those changes to the reflog so if I screw up later I'll be able to recover them.Let me live with my mistakes
Waddyamean "that's what backups are for"Sorry, wrong communityNot many people back up continuously, so this is still useful.