Re: Rollback of git commands

> On Tue, November 27, 2007 8:33 pm, Jon Smirl said:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> > I'm only looking for a command that would rollback the effect of
> > changes to the object store (you don't have to remove the objects).
> > Losing complex staging would be ok since it can be recreated.
> >
> > Let's take my recent problem as an example. I typed 'git rebase
> > linus/master' instead of 'stg rebase linus/master'. Then I typed 'stg
> > repair'. The repair failed and left me in a mess. Both of these are
> > easy to rollback except for the fact that stg has stored a bunch of
> > state in .git/*.
> >
> > After doing the commands I located my last commit before the rebase
> > and edited master back to  it. But my system was still messed up since
> > moving master got me out of sync with the state stg stored in .git/*.
> > The 'stg repair' command had changed the stored state.
>
>  From your description is seems that Git proper was able to handle the
> situation just fine.   It sounds instead like you're describing a problem
> with Stg where it became confused without a way to restore _its_ meta
> data.  There's not much Git itself can do to help in this situation
> unless Stg stores all of its meta-data as standard Git objects, rather
> than just using the .git directory.