Re: Rollback of git commands

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711281349180.9605@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <87lk8imcxv.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:

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> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> > well, it would/could be the normal undo/redo semantics of editors: you 
> > can undo-redo in a linear history fashion, in an unlimited way, but the 
> > moment you modify any past point of history then the redo future is 
> > overriden. (but the 'past' up to that point is still recorded and 
> > available)
> 
> Or it could be Emacs-like: 'undo' is just another operation that is a
> subject for further undo's ;) Then there is no need for 'redo', and no
> need to override either the future or the past.

The reflog does just that in fact, when it records your 'git reset' operations.

> Besides this obvious technical superiority will help to maintain git's 
> reputation of being hard to grok ;)

Sure!  ;)

Nicolas