From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: 'commit -a' safety Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:11:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20100424151103.GA19272@glandium.org> References: <20100422151037.2310.2429.reportbug@frosties.localdomain> <201004241348.49397.jnareb@gmail.com> <20100424142848.GA4461@gnu.kitenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Joey Hess X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 24 17:11:18 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O5h0m-0005Hk-UL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:11:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753311Ab0DXPLL (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:11:11 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:59181 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186Ab0DXPLK (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:11:10 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=glandium.org) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O5h0a-0005Rf-U4; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:11:07 +0200 Received: from mh by glandium.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O5h0Z-00057M-T0; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:11:03 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100424142848.GA4461@gnu.kitenet.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: (score 2.5): No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:28:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > > What you cant recover by undoing commit is the state of index before > > accidental 'git commit -a' instead of 'git commit'. > > Has a reflog equivilant for the index, to allow resetting it to a > previous state, ever been discussed? > > I don't grok its data structure -- could that be done efficiently? Updating the index creates blobs, so the file states are definitely already kept. What is missing is trees that could be referred to by a log. Mike