From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:36:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83fv8dlnca.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5511998E.8080309@cs.ucla.edu> <5512F8C7.7010509@math.ntnu.no> <5513F889.4000404@math.ntnu.no> <55212DE9.8070806@math.ntnu.no> <55217D4D.4080207@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4m6l8vw.fsf@gnu.org> <552182EC.5080901@cs.ucla.edu> <83vbhal7ph.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428305830 23955 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2015 07:37:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 07:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 09:37:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf1ad-0004sD-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:36:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf1ac-0006TS-E2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 03:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf1aZ-0006TK-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 03:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf1aU-0006xL-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 03:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:42923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yf1aU-0006x6-1I; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 03:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMD00100JO60600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:36:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMD000U4JTCVX20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:36:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185007 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 01:50:42 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I thought Richard was contemplating the idea of cloning > > a fresh repository every time he wanted to push some changes, so my > > reaction was to that possibility, not to a one-time fix. > > Yes, that was what I was thinking my recourse would have to be. > However, perhaps 'git reset --hard HEAD' is equivalent to that. > It worked this time. Whether it will work in general, I don't know. It should work in general, but I hope you will never again get yourself into the kind of mess you had this time. I hope the improved instructions on the Wiki will keep you and others from that trouble.