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

From: Vipul <finn02@disroot.org>
Date: Aug 27, 2019, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <664344cb-f9e4-d4fc-fd14-620e3e10157a@disroot.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190827190509.GB3150@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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.

> If you've moved a branch pointer around (e.g., via "git branch -f" or
> "git reset"), you can recover it from the reflog.
>

Recovery is not a problem, asking for help on #git IRC people will tell you whether data is recoverable. If recoverable, they will even guide you step-by-step. But, I think it would be good idea to not make these kind of mistakes at first place. Ultimately, we as a developer want to make software more user-friendly and usable for normal users.

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> 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.