rowanj
add "reset branch to commit" feature
add a "reset branch to commit" feature, like it exists in GitX (L).
I will try to implement it myself, but as I am currently very busy, I can't promise it.
It's definitely a feature that I'd like to see added; and have considered it myself.
One thing to look out for, though - is that a reset is potentially destructive; if one or more commits would be left dangling after the operation. I'd definitely like to see a severe "would you like to continue" prompt, at least in that case.
An alternative would be to default to creating a tag for the branch that is being moved at the current location (with an option to un-check it, like the create branch dialog has the option to not check out the new branch); i.e. resetting test branch could create a tag resets/test_branch/[short sha] - which the user could then delete manually once they were sure they didn't want to refer to the old history.
When doing that, you'll want to provide user with a choice of reset modes (soft, hard, mixed), together with a compact explanation of what they mean.
I'm strongly against creating tags for this type of use-case scenarios. It shouldn't be hard to figure out if commits will be made unreachable by the reset operation, since the CLI already does that. It should be detected by the interface where user will choose reset mode, and in case commits would be made unreachable, then it'd also offer an option to create a new branch at the old location, or ignore.
I think the @laullon fork has a very good implementation of the "Reset to..." feature. It even offers the explanations as @RomainMuller suggests. I've had no problems with it...and it makes that fork my "goto" GitX app.
+1 I've just come across this fork of gitx and love it. Within one day of use however I was looking for the reset functionality I have come to rely on in gitx (l).
