Well, I disagree, if only because the whole _point_ of "git reset" is to
leave some point behind. I use it all the time (well, often enough) as a
"undo" operation, and it's fundamentally different than "git checkout" at
least to my worldview.
When you do "git reset" you _expect_ state to be reset/dropped. But when
just switching between branches, you don't.
(I realize that "git checkout filename/goes/here" has kind of mixed up
"git reset" and "git checkout". The "git checkout filename" syntax
basically resets the filename, and that confuses things a bit. So in the
above, I really do talk about just "checking out a _commit_" and do a
state switch, not a "check out a filename" and overwrite the old contents
of that file).
Linus
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