mthwsjc_Mar 29

Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710

Claude is running git reset --hard origin/main in my project every 10 minutes · Issue #40710 · anthropics/claude-code

Update (2026-03-30): Root cause identified — this was NOT a Claude Code bug. The resets were caused by a separate tool I built that was running locally, which used GitPython to hard-reset the worki...

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Show threadkibwenMar 30
Let's focus on the real issue here, which is that HN has apparently normalized the double hyphen in the title to an en dash--yes, an en dash, not even an em dash.
Show threadbyronsharmanMar 30
I agree that it should be left as a double hyphen, but an en dash is far more appropriate considering the decades-long precedent set by LaTeX (and continued by Typst).
Show threadajrossMar 30

It's a command line argument. The undeniably correct way to render it is with two minus signs[1] and absolutely not something non-ascii.

[1] Not strictly a hyphen, which has its own unicode point (0x2010) outside of ascii. Unicode embraced the ambiguity by calling this point (0x2d) "HYPHEN-MINUS" formally, but really its only unique typographic usage is to represent subtraction.

Show threadminitechMar 30
They meant “more appropriate [than an em dash]”. And that minus sign usage of hyphen-minus isn’t unique in Unicode either – see U+2212 MINUS SIGN.
Show threadajrossMar 30
But... it's not more appropriate than an em dash for representing command line arguments? I don't see how either is any more incorrect than the other. There's a uniquely correct answer here and the em-dash is not it. Period.
Show threadminitech
It’s about the top-level comment’s horror that ”--” was substituted with “an en dash, not even an em dash”. If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense. The comment you originally replied to had already agreed “that it should be left as a double hyphen”.
Mar 30 at 2:45amWeb
Show threadajrossMar 30

> If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense.

No, it doesn't? This seems like crazy talk to me, like "If you're picking a substitute for saffron, blood plasma makes more sense than monocrystalline silicon". Like, what?

It makes zero sense to substitute this at all. It's exactly what it says it is, the "--hard" command line option to "git reset", and you write it in exactly one way.

Show threadminitechMar 30
Nobody is confused or disagrees about the `--hard` part. It was a minor tangent about contexts where these ASCII substitutions are established, like LaTeX (`` -> “, '' -> ”, -- -> –, --- -> —, etc.)