Re: Rollback of git commands

On Tue, November 27, 2007 8:33 pm, Jon Smirl said:

Hi Jon,

I'm only looking for a command that would rollback the effect of
changes to the object store (you don't have to remove the objects).
Losing complex staging would be ok since it can be recreated.

Let's take my recent problem as an example. I typed 'git rebase
linus/master' instead of 'stg rebase linus/master'. Then I typed 'stg
repair'. The repair failed and left me in a mess. Both of these are
easy to rollback except for the fact that stg has stored a bunch of
state in .git/*.

After doing the commands I located my last commit before the rebase
and edited master back to  it. But my system was still messed up since
moving master got me out of sync with the state stg stored in .git/*.
The 'stg repair' command had changed the stored state.

 From your description is seems that Git proper was able to handle the
situation just fine.   It sounds instead like you're describing a problem
with Stg where it became confused without a way to restore _its_ meta
data.  There's not much Git itself can do to help in this situation
unless Stg stores all of its meta-data as standard Git objects, rather
than just using the .git directory.

Sean