This was triggered by a query by Sam Ravnborg, and extends "git reset" to
reset the index and the .git/HEAD pointer to an arbitrarily named point.
For example
git reset HEAD^
will just reset the current HEAD to its own parent - leaving the working
directory untouched, but effectively un-doing the top-most commit. You
might want to do this if you realize after you committed that you made a
mistake that you want to fix up: reset your HEAD back to its previous
state, fix up the working directory and re-do the commit.
If you want to totally un-do the commit (and reset your working directory
to that point too), you'd first use "git reset HEAD^" to reset to the
parent, and then do a "git checkout -f" to reset the working directory
state to that point in time too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It sets up the normal git environment variables and a few helper
functions (currently just "die()"), and returns ok if it all looks like
a git archive. So use it something like
. git-sh-setup-script || die "Not a git archive"
to make the rest of the git scripts more careful and readable.
Fix permissions, and add trivial "reset" and "add" scripts.
The "reset" script just resets the index back to head, while the "add"
script is just a crutch for people used to do "cvs add".
Linus Torvalds