Re: 'commit -a' safety

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Apr 24, 2010, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20100424151103.GA19272@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100424142848.GA4461@gnu.kitenet.net>

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:28:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

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> 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?

Updating the index creates blobs, so the file states are definitely already kept. What is missing is trees that could be referred to by a log.

Mike

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