Re: emacs.git 'master' reset

> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:50:40 +0200
> Cc: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> From: <[email protected]>
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 03:17:23PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:57:46 +0100
> > > 
> > > Eli Zaretskii [26/Jul  2:51pm +03] wrote:
> > > > I did pull and push, but have no unpushed commits (AFAIK), so what
> > > > should I do?
> > > 
> > >     git reset --hard origin/master
> > > 
> > > Sorry, should have mentioned this case.
> > 
> > But currently "git status" says "ahead 10", presumably because I have
> > commits from before emacs.git on Savannah was reset.  Won't the
> > above command lose all those commits?  Or were they already re-pushed?
> 
> It will, if they are in the branch in question (master).
> 
> You can either
> 
> (a) rename your current master to save your commits and compare later:
> 
>   git branch -m master my-old-master
> 
> (of course, master should be clean at this moment, and not the branch
> currently checked out)
> 
> Comparison will be made a bit harder since the now "history manipulated"
> master and yours diverge from the point the history was manipulated. But
> that's recent, so...
> 
> You'd pull your commits from the created branch (my-old-master here)
> via, e.g. git cherry-pick
> 
> (b) tar away your current repo (or just move it to another directory tree),
> make a fresh clone and, in your old repo make patches for your new commits,
> applying them to the new repo (basically, this is what you would do under
> (a), but there you have git's support).

If you seriously suggest that everyone who has a local clone of
emacs.git should do the above dance, then I find it hard to believe,
and hope it is very far from reality.