Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] recover: restoration of deleted worktree files

> Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com> writes:
>
> > Introduce git-recover, a simple script to aide in restoration of
> > deleted worktree files.  This will look for unreachable blobs in
> > the object database and prompt users to restore them to disk,
> > either interactively or on the command-line.

> >  git-recover.sh | 311 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 311 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100755 git-recover.sh
>
> My first reaction was to say that I am not going to take a new
> command written only for bash with full bashism, even if it came
> with docs, tests nor Makefile integration, for Git itself.  Then I
> reconsidered, as not everything related to Git is git-core, and all
> of the above traits are sign of this patch _not_ meant for git-core.
>
> In other words, I think this patch can be a fine addition to
> somebody else's project (i.e. random collection of scripts that may
> help Git users), so let's see how I can offer comments/inputs to
> help you improve it.  So I won't comment on lang, log message, or
> shell scripting style---these are project convention and the
> git-core convention won't be relevant to this patch.