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Rollback of git commands

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2007, 23:23 UTC
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<9e4733910711271523p3be94010jac9c79e6b95f010d@mail.gmail.com>

Could a rollback log be implemented in git? It would make things way easier when you screw something up.You'd only roll back things that impacted the object store, not things like checkout.

stg is also starting to store significant state in the .git directory. It may be better to move this state into a git object. That would allow the state history to be tracked and rollback be implemented.

The same logic can be applied to moving all tracking information in the .git directory into objects. You then just need to track a single SHA1 pointing to the .git config info in the object db.

Rollback in the object store is simple, just move the SHA1 in the config files back to where it was before the action was done. What we are missing is a way to rollback the config files.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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