From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:56:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Implicit stashes
Message-ID: <4C2AB260.8020108@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilTaQP6qARY1A495vm9HAvLVX_lqIQd1l3WIv7a@mail.gmail.com>

  ----- Original Message -----
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