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> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:42:22 +0100
> 
> >>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> 
> > I think Git should support it anyway, with rollback to any commit.
> > That's just a "git reset".
> 
> "git reset --hard", actually.

Not necessarily; both variants have their place.  It all depends on
the scenario.