From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 03:10:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Reverting an uncommitted revert
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0905192300070.3906@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <4A136C40.6020808@workspacewhiz.com>

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Joshua Jensen wrote:

> So here's the idea: What if Git, upon a revert change (or git reset --hard
> HEAD), "committed" the changes to be reverted and then did the revert with a
> 'git reset --hard HEAD^'?  The reverted files would be disconnected from a
> branch, but they would be available in the reflog to retrieve.

I think there is indeed some value in having a commit of the work 
directory dirty state automatically made before this state is discarded, 
and stuff a reference to that commit in the HEAD reflog.  I think such a 
feature would need to be made configurable and active by default.


Nicolas