Re: Support for an interactive confirmation prompt when users can possibly lose their work like some UNIX commands

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:42:03PM +0000, Vipul wrote:

> Jeff King wrote:
> > The usual philosophy in Git is not to bother the user with
> > confirmations, but to allow recovery after a mistake.
> > 
> 
> Well, always prompting for confirmation will be annoying for some people
> specially who are mastered in git but, may be very useful feature for
> beginner's to avoid them from making mistakes. May be, this feature will
> be disabled by default and users have to set some config variable (like
> other git-config variable for example help.autocorrect etc) in global
> gitconfig file.

Sure, I think there's an argument to be made for confirmations (though I
personally would not want them). I was just describing what Git has now.

> > Note that there _are_ some commands which are not reversible: mostly
> > things that drop content from the working tree. So "git reset --hard" is
> > one, and "git clean" is another. There have been discussions and even
> > some patches about storing the lost in an "undo log", but nothing has
> > been merged.
> >
> Seems like a good idea. Are they ever gonna merge? If no, why? Or, it
> will merge in next feature release.

I don't know the latest state. A quick search of the archive showed this
as the latest version:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20181209104419.12639-1-pclouds@xxxxxxxxx/

-Peff



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