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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rollback of git commands
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:29 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711280951150.9605@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711272037r2ce3ed01y31ec8531f5803efe@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Of course you've never screwed up a repository using git commands,
> right? I've messed up plenty. A good way to mess up a repo is to get
> the data in .git/* out of sync with what is in the repo. I'm getting
> good enough with git that I can fix most mess up with a few edits, but
> it took me two years to get to that point. Rolling back to a check
> point is way easier. User error and a command failing are both equally
> valid ways to mess up a repo.

The reflog contains all your check points, for every modifications you 
make, even the stupid ones.  You should look at it.


Nicolas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-27 23:23 Rollback of git commands Jon Smirl
2007-11-28  0:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-28  1:33   ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28  1:49     ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28  1:57       ` David Symonds
2007-11-28 16:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-28 18:39           ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-28 18:52             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-28  4:07       ` Geert Bosch
2007-11-28 16:20         ` Jeff King
2007-11-28 16:23           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 16:28             ` Jeff King
2007-11-28  3:55     ` Sean
2007-11-28  4:37       ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28  4:40         ` Sean
2007-11-28  4:53           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 14:53         ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-11-28 15:58           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 16:26             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-28 16:37               ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 16:46                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-28 17:03                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-29  8:42               ` Karl Hasselström
2007-11-28  4:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-28  9:22     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-11-28 15:13       ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 21:47         ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-28 21:58           ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-28 22:48             ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-28 23:42           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-29  8:28             ` Theodore Tso

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