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 <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Robin Rosenberg 2007-02-04 17:16:39 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -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