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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-09 02:51:16 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-03-08 18:16:05 -0800
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Documentation: improve description of "git reset --keep"
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -53,9 +53,12 @@ OPTIONS
and the current commit in the working tree.
--keep::
- Resets the index to match the tree recorded by the named commit,
- but keep changes in the working tree. Aborts if the reset would
- change files that are already modified in the working tree.
+ Reset the index to the given commit, keeping local changes in
+ the working tree since the current commit, while updating
+ working tree files without local changes to what appears in
+ the given commit. If a file that is different between the
+ current commit and the given commit has local changes, reset
+ is aborted.
-p::
--patch::