[OE-core] [OE-Core][master][PATCH] standard.py: Provide an additional option for devtool reset

Alexander Kanavin alex.kanavin at gmail.com
Fri Aug 9 08:27:06 UTC 2019


On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 00:00, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:

> May make sense to follow git as an example..
>
> devtool reset does what it already does..
>
> devtool reset --hard  also does the removal of the existing source.
>
> But I've seen too many people blow away in progress source code without
> meaning
> to.  Adding something like the --hard option would make it clear it's
> going to
> all go away.
>

It might not be a coincidence, but in many years of using git, I do not
remember finding 'git reset' useful even once, and I am still not sure what
it does exactly. But 'git reset --hard' I use all the time.

Alex
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