* Suggestion for Git docummntation Book, Chapter "7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified"
@ 2024-01-18 18:42 Peter Hunkeler
2024-01-20 1:03 ` Jeff King
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From: Peter Hunkeler @ 2024-01-18 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: git
Hi,
I appreciate all the work that has been done to give us Git users good
documentation.
As a rather-newbie I have to lookup the commands I need for rarely used,
specific tasks. <git reset ...> being one of them. If find chapter "7.7
Git Tools - Reset Demystified" very helpful. There is however one point
that newbies might not (yet) clearly understand: The git reset does
*not* do anything to new, untracked files that might exist in the
working tree. To cleanup, the advice from various places on the internet
is to issue a "git clean -f -d" after the reset.
Maybe it would be helpful if said chapter had a short discussion about
non tracked files, how to clean with "git clean -f -d"
Thanks
Peter
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* Re: Suggestion for Git docummntation Book, Chapter "7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified"
2024-01-18 18:42 Suggestion for Git docummntation Book, Chapter "7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified" Peter Hunkeler
@ 2024-01-20 1:03 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2024-01-20 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Peter Hunkeler; +Cc: git
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:42:52PM +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> I appreciate all the work that has been done to give us Git users good
> documentation.
>
> As a rather-newbie I have to lookup the commands I need for rarely used,
> specific tasks. <git reset ...> being one of them. If find chapter "7.7
> Git Tools - Reset Demystified" very helpful. There is however one point
> that newbies might not (yet) clearly understand: The git reset does
> *not* do anything to new, untracked files that might exist in the
> working tree. To cleanup, the advice from various places on the internet
> is to issue a "git clean -f -d" after the reset.
>
> Maybe it would be helpful if said chapter had a short discussion about
> non tracked files, how to clean with "git clean -f -d"
I don't think the folks who work on the book content tend to hang out on
the development mailing list. You might get more response opening an
issue in their GitHub repo:
https://github.com/progit/progit2
-Peff
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