On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:47:04AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us> writes:
> > +Sometimes you want to edit a commit deeper in your history.  One
> > +approach is to use `git format-patch` to create a series of patches,
> > +then reset the state to before the patches:
> >  
> >  -------------------------------------------------
> > +$ git format-patch origin
> > +$ git reset --hard origin
> >  -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Technically speaking, this does not "reset to before the patches".
> You would need "git reset --hard $(git merge-base origin HEAD)" or
> something like that.

They'll be fine if they haven't fetched since they started their
branch ;).

It does look like I've got an extra comma an a missing “and”.  What
about:

  …create series of patches and then reset…

Trevor

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