Re: 'commit -a' safety

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Apr 24, 2010, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20100424142848.GA4461@gnu.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <201004241348.49397.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

> What you cant recover by undoing commit is the state of index before
> accidental 'git commit -a' instead of 'git commit'.

Has a reflog equivilant for the index, to allow resetting it to a previous state, ever been discussed?

I don't grok its data structure -- could that be done efficiently?

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