On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:51:19 -0800 (PST)
Javier Garcia <tirengar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in the man of "git reset" it says:
>
> * git-reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state*
>
> So..what happen if i dont specify any state? *something* changes?
The problem with understanding `git reset` is that this command
is overloaded with meanings [*], and it's hard to capture all of them to
satisfy the manual page's requirement for description to be a one-liner.
In fact, some of `git reset` invocations do indeed move the HEAD, but
some of them update the index or the work tree or both. Yet some of
them do all three thing (notably, the famous
`git reset --hard <commit>`).
Since reading manual pages are hard (they're precise and up to the
point but usually lack description of "the big picture") I would
recommend to first read the "Reset Demystified" [1] article (which is a
part of the series of extensions to the "Pro Git" book providing more
in-depth discussions of certain topics). This is a friendly
explanation of how various types of `git reset` invocations work, and it
certainly provides that "big picture view".
After reading this article, you can turn back to the `git reset` manual
page to learn the precise details of how it works, if needed.
[*] In fact, it's not really overloaded as grouping of the tasks this
tool is assigned to do is based on the Git's underlying
architecture.
1. http://git-scm.com/2011/07/11/reset.html
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