Questions tagged [reset]

Resetting something restores it to a default position or value, or to a previous position or value

Resetting something restores it to a default position or value, or to a previous position or value

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In plain English, what does "git reset" do?

I have seen interesting posts explaining subtleties about git reset. Unfortunately, the more I read about it, the more it appears that I don't understand it fully. I come from a SVN background and Git is a whole new paradigm. I got mercurial easily,…

git reset

asked Mar 27 '10 at 16:44

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Reset auto increment counter in postgres

I would like to force the auto increment field of a table to some value, I tried with this: ALTER TABLE product AUTO_INCREMENT = 1453 AND ALTER SEQUENCE product RESTART WITH 1453; ERROR: relation "your_sequence_name" does not exist I have a…

sql postgresql reset auto-increment

asked Mar 17 '11 at 16:55

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How to reset a form using jQuery with .reset() method

I had working code that could reset my form when I click on a reset button. However after my code is getting longer, I realize that it doesn't work anymore.

javascript jquery forms reset asked May 09 '13 at 01:02 yvonnezoe 7,129 8 30 47 354 votes 31 answers Resetting a multi-stage form with jQuery I have a form with a standard reset button coded thusly: Trouble is, said form is of the multi-stage sort, so if a user fills out a stage & then returns later, the 'remembered' values for… jquery reset forms asked Mar 25 '09 at 04:40 da5id 9,100 9 39 53 293 votes 10 answers How to git reset --hard a subdirectory UPDATE²: With Git 2.23 (August 2019), there's a new command git restore that does this, see the accepted answer. UPDATE: This will work more intuitively as of Git 1.8.3, see my own answer. Imagine the following use case: I want to get rid of all… git reset git-reset sparse-checkout asked Mar 14 '13 at 08:40 krlmlr 25,056 14 120 217 260 votes 7 answers Fastest way to reset every value of std::vector to 0 What's the fastest way to reset every value of a std::vector to 0 and keeping the vectors initial size ? A for loop with the [] operator ? c++ reset stdvector asked Jan 13 '12 at 09:46 Matthieu Riegler 31,918 20 95 134 132 votes 11 answers How to reset db in Django? I get a command 'reset' not found error Following this Django by Example tutotrial here: http://lightbird.net/dbe/todo_list.html The tutorial says: "This changes our table layout and we’ll have to ask Django to reset and recreate tables: manage.py reset todo; manage.py syncdb" though,… python database django reset asked Mar 16 '13 at 19:56 Prem 3,373 7 29 43 122 votes 4 answers How to reuse an ostringstream? I'd like to clear out and reuse an ostringstream (and the underlying buffer) so that my app doesn't have to do as many allocations. How do I reset the object to its initial state? c++ stl reset ostringstream asked Mar 08 '09 at 20:53 twk 16,760 23 73 97 115 votes 3 answers How do I reset the setInterval timer? How do I reset a setInterval timer back to 0? var myTimer = setInterval(function() { console.log('idle'); }, 4000); I tried clearInterval(myTimer) but that completely stops the interval. I want it to restart from 0. javascript setinterval reset asked Nov 14 '11 at 18:42 Rik de Vos 3,467 5 28 34 108 votes 2 answers How to rollback the two previous commits? Consider this scenario: Developer A does a commit: #n Dev. B does commit #n+1 Dev. A does commit #n+2 and commit #n+3 and then discovers that in his commit #n+2 he introduced a defect. How can dev. A rollback his last 2 commits and continue… git github reset asked Jan 21 '11 at 19:22 Marius Butuc 17,781 22 77 111 108 votes 6 answers Reset PostgreSQL primary key to 1 Is there a way to reset the primary key of a PostgreSQL table to start at 1 again on a populated table? Right now it's generating numbers from 1000000 and up. I want it all to reset and start to 1, keeping all my existing data intact. postgresql primary-key reset asked Sep 29 '10 at 06:36 David 4,235 12 44 52 99 votes 4 answers How can I uncommit the last commit in a git bare repository? Taking into consideration that there are several git commands that make no sense in a bare repository (because bare repositories don't use indexes and do not have a working directory), git reset --hard HEAD^ is not a solution to uncommit the last… git repository commit reset git-bare asked Jan 07 '11 at 11:13 Lavinia-Gabriela Dobrovolschi 993 1 7 5 96 votes 4 answers C++11 When clearing shared_ptr, should I use reset or set to nullptr? I have a question about C++11 best practices. When clearing a shared_ptr, should I use the reset() function with no parameter, or should I set the shared_ptr to nullptr? For example: std::shared_ptr foo(new… c++ c++11 shared-ptr reset nullptr asked Apr 22 '13 at 16:03 user1930581 1,465 1 13 23 84 votes 6 answers Git: How to move back and forth between commits I have a newbie question about Git: I need to move back and forth in a history of a branch. That means, I need to get all the files to the state they were in in some old revision, and then I need to get back to the latest state in the repository. I… git reset pull git-pull asked Jan 22 '10 at 23:18 Ondra Žižka 43,948 41 217 277 76 votes 3 answers How to reset par(mfrow) in R I set par(mfrow =c(1,2)) and now everytime I plot it shows splits it into 2 plots. How can I reset this to only show one plot. Thanks so much. r plot reset r-base-graphics asked Sep 23 '11 at 23:59 akz 1,865 2 16 13 1 2 3 … 99 100 Next