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From: John Tapsell
Date: 6/29/2010 8:48 PM
I was thinking that it would be nice if everything was undoable in
git. Currently there are some easily typed by irreversible commands
that I keep seeing people doing.
For example:
$ git checkout folder
Now all changes that you just worked on are deleted, with no way of recovering.
$ git reset --hard
I know this seems very explicit to delete changes, but I myself have
done this and accidentally lost changes. For example, I write a unit
test and don't commit it in on purpose because I know that it
currently fails and I want to test it against older versions. I
carefully git checkout older versions to find if the unit test fails,
then in stupidity reset back to origin/master ..
Anyway, I think a nice solution is to have a separate stash for
implicit stashes. Then irreversible commands would simply stash
before making the changes.
It would also be nice to add a 'git undo' which just undoes whatever
the last operation was - i.e unstash or reset to an earlier HEAD@{1}
See this thread: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2009/5/20/2915
Josh
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