From: Tarmigan Casebolt Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Add hints to revert documentation about other ways to undo changes X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0.1~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a634dcf51fb0fbb66b5c9287de08c6230c90903;p=git.git Add hints to revert documentation about other ways to undo changes Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might want to do. Cc: Daniel Barkalow Cc: Lea Wiemann Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 98cfa3c0d..caa07298a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). +Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the +effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to +throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you +should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If +you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you +should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the 'git checkout + -- ' syntax. Take care with these alternatives as +both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory. + OPTIONS ------- ::