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Re: Rollback of git commands

From
David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2007, 01:57 UTC
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On Nov 28, 2007 12:49 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rollback is too strong of name for this. Checkpoints would be better.
> The idea is to record the total system state at convenient moments and
> then allow moving back to the checkpointed state. The object store
> supports this, but the rest of the state in .git/* isn't being
> recorded.
rsync -a .git /somewhere/safe

I fear that what you ask becomes a chicken-and-egg scenario: where/how is this checkpointing information going to be stored? If it's tightly integrated with Git, what happens when you want to roll-back a checkpoint-restore?

Dave.
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  1. Jon SmirlNov 27, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2007
  3. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  4. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  5. David SymondsNov 28, 2007
  6. Ingo MolnarNov 28, 2007
  7. Sergei OrganovNov 28, 2007
  8. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  9. Geert BoschNov 28, 2007
  10. Jeff KingNov 28, 2007
  11. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  12. Jeff KingNov 28, 2007
  13. SeanNov 28, 2007
  14. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  15. SeanNov 28, 2007
  16. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  17. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  18. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  19. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  20. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  21. Nicolas PitreNov 28, 2007
  22. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  23. Karl HasselströmNov 29, 2007
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2007
  25. Karl HasselströmNov 28, 2007
  26. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  27. Daniel BarkalowNov 28, 2007
  28. Steven GrimmNov 28, 2007
  29. Daniel BarkalowNov 28, 2007
  30. Jon SmirlNov 28, 2007
  31. Theodore TsoNov 29, 2007

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