From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rollback of git commands
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee77f5c20711271757h724d5fcep38f3c2354c54f20b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711271749q1b96bfe9i60e43619c89234b9@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 28, 2007 12:49 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 11:20 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 [this message]
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
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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