Re: [RFC] git reset --recover

From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2008, 15:13 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160803030713r7bdcf825sf994cbb20f096ccd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803030659j2fa0325lf9c88b915ddb70da@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Today i use git reset carelessly and lose all my changes!
>
>  To remind other people not do the same wrong thing, i share my
>  experience and propose a new option to avoid this happens again.
>  ------------------------------------
>  foo
>    .git
>     bar
>         file1
>         file2
>  ------------------------------------
>
>  In the direcotry structure above, i want to make bar as a repository
>  (which hasn't yet been tracked by foo repository). I should have done
>  this as follows
>
>  -------------------------------------------
>  cd bar
>  git init
>  git add
>  ------------------------------------------
>
>  but i fogot to type "git init" which results that file1 and file2 are
>  added to index of foo repository. I tried to revert the operation
>  using "git reset". And the tragedy happened at that time because i
>  made so fatal  a mistake that i typed "git reset --hard". And i lost
>  all my files in bar dir!

"git reset" was sufficient.

>
>  So, can we introduce a --recover option for "git reset" to save the
>  foolish or careless people like me?

Another possibility would be to not delete a file that is absent in both the old and new HEAD, even if it was in the index.

Santi