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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.

  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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