Comment by sahkopoyta
4 years ago
Seems like a nice tool, but if you really used git, I don't really see how this situation described at the readme.md could happen :-)
you think you just lost days of work
4 years ago
Seems like a nice tool, but if you really used git, I don't really see how this situation described at the readme.md could happen :-)
you think you just lost days of work
> if you really used git
That really doesn't mean anything.
> I don't really see how this situation described at the readme.md could happen :-)
Start working on a big and complicated refactoring, don't commit because everything's broken and in flux, run the wrong command and lose your changes-in-flight somehow (reset the working copy, revert a file, overwrite a file incorrectly, ...).
Yep, this. Exactly like the docs say, you could recover entire directories after an accidental reset, or just avoid having to ctrl+z in your file 40 times.
I've been fortunate to "only" lose about 2-3 hours of work to mis-typing in git in the last year. It could have been 2 days or so if I was unlucky. For 2-3 hours of work it's maybe not worth installing this tool, but I'm definitely thinking about it because it's so much better than potentially losing 2 days.
"Commit often" doesn't work for me a lot of the time, I'd spend up spending almost as much time rebasing and patch committing as I would in dev/refactor. When you're exploring you try 5 things for every one that works, and it's not apparent til later which thing you want to keep. Committing junk every 10 minutes and then committing a rollback for most of it isn't ideal.
> Yep, this. Exactly like the docs say, you could recover entire directories after an accidental reset, or just avoid having to ctrl+z in your file 40 times.
I've definitely wished IntelliJ's local history could work across multiple files a few times, it did let me recover from fuckups more than once but having to find and revert each file individually was not fun.
Not for you and me but might save hours/days of work for someone (including me-a-few-years-ago) who is lazy/forgetful about their commits.
"including me-a-few-years-ago". This also applies to me, sometimes you have to learn the hard way. I would say that in this scenario addressing the root cause is better than treating the symptoms.
Any unstaged work is getting committed in the background, so if you lose unstaged work accidentally, it will be available on that dura branch.