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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by EForEndeavour on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:12AM (#37889104)
Nah, they likely didn't bother trying to ask GPT-4 and imagined hypothetical answers which could lead beginners to shoot themselves in the foot.

ChatGPT Plus with a short custom instruction to answer in steps, respond tersely, ask clarifying questions where needed, and make recommendations wherever possible replied to "how to reverse a pushed commit in git" with:

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To reverse a pushed commit in Git, you can either use git revert or git reset. Each approach has pros and cons.

# Option 1: git revert

Pros: Safe for shared branches, creates a new commit to undo changes.

Cons: Adds noise to history.

Commands:

    git revert [COMMIT_HASH]

    git push origin [BRANCH_NAME]
# Option 2: git reset

## Soft Reset

Pros: Keeps changes in your working directory.

Cons: Rewrites history; risky for shared branches.

Commands:

    git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^

    git commit -m "Reverting previous commit"

    git push origin [BRANCH_NAME] --force-with-lease
## Hard Reset

Pros: Completely removes commit.

Cons: Rewrites history; risky for shared branches; discards changes.

Commands:

    git reset --hard [COMMIT_HASH]^

    git push origin [BRANCH_NAME] --force-with-lease
Recommendation:

Use git revert for shared branches to avoid conflicts. Use git reset for local or feature branches where you control all changes. Clarify your specific scenario for a tailored recommendation.

Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by moritzwarhier on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:37AM (#37889248)
You are correct! I was fantasizing how a bad GPT answer could look like, similar to the errors that were in the answers to my prompts to GPT-3.5 for imagemagick. These prompts where precise and in good faith, with some rounds of clarification.

I am sure newer GPT versions will do better, and I think for a tool as ubiquitous as git the answers from ChatGPT would have been perfectly fine too.

Just wanted to illustrate why I wouldn't mske it a habit to ask it factual questions.

The "lost two commits" answer was meant as whimsy joke. More realstic scenarios are more boring of course.

E.g. memorizing wrong explanations for solitions that happen to work, or accepting wrong answers as fact when it's inconsequential for the short term acceptance of the answer.

Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by morning-coffee on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:52AM (#37890260)
C:\> debug g=c800:5
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:33AM (#37889575)
Okay the previous wasn't real GPT but this is?

> git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^

The docs say files are unchanged.

> git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^

Committing the unchanged files so like an amend, a squash, not exactly reversing, reverting, or undoing anything except commit messages.