From 6e2e1cfb81a6a6de9fc074bd26bed8a45f73251f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:16:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Why is it bad to rewind a branch that has already been pushed out? Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/tutorial.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 5fc5be5a28..129c5c5f5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ this branch. If this branch is the only branch containing those commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that other developers pull from, as it will force needless merges on other developers to clean up the history. +If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use gitlink:git-revert[1] +instead. The git grep command can search for strings in any version of your project, so