Re: git hang-ups

[Mark Polesky]

Graham Percival wrote:

> What does:
>   git reset --hard origin
> or
>   git reset --hard origin master
> do?  I'd expect one of those to set you to a working state.  (NB:
> by "I'd expect", I mean "as a user, I think the program should do
> this".  Unfortunately, as somebody who's been fighting with git
> for years, I have no confidence that git /will/ behave in that
> manner)

$ git reset --hard origin
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin': unknown revision or path not in the working 
tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

$ git reset --hard origin master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin': unknown revision or path not in the working 
tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one fighting git!
- Mark