Merge branch 'jn/rebase-rename-am' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-reset.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 70198f90c4a06f01434ace9b34c72fe7fcaac48b..b04d129b3f0b220bd1358a0d692ff25d1e2985bb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -86,6 +86,29 @@ OPTIONS
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
+Undo add::
++
+------------
+$ edit                                     <1>
+$ git add 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.
+
 Undo a commit and redo::
 +
 ------------
@@ -105,19 +128,6 @@ edit the message further, you can give -C option instead.
 +
 See also the --amend option to linkgit:git-commit[1].
 
-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.  (See the
-"RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] for
-the implications of doing so.)
-
 Undo a commit, making it a topic branch::
 +
 ------------
@@ -133,28 +143,18 @@ current HEAD.
 <2> Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits.
 <3> Switch to "topic/wip" branch and keep working.
 
-Undo add::
+Undo commits permanently::
 +
 ------------
-$ edit                                     <1>
-$ git add frotz.c filfre.c
-$ mailx                                    <2>
-$ git reset                                <3>
-$ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol  <4>
+$ git commit ...
+$ git reset --hard HEAD~3   <1>
 ------------
 +
-<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.
+<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.  (See the
+"RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] for
+the implications of doing so.)
 
 Undo a merge or pull::
 +