Comment by dahart
4 years ago
Git has a built-in Ctrl-Z that is called “reflog”. Acknowledging that git’s UI commands such as “reflog” may be technical, and nonstandard, and poorly named, does dura provide something that git doesn’t, and is it a good idea to add yet another application/layer/dependency to the git workflow? Would it be just as effective to add a git alias called “undo”, or something like that?
that's tangential to this tool though. the reflog is for any git changes. this is a tool that checks for changes every 5 seconds or so and commits them to a shadow branch. there are a few things that standard git will clobber too without any recourse from the reflog.
> there are a few things that standard git will clobber too without any recourse from the reflog.
True! Stash is one of those things, right? Does dura catch the stashes specifically? Clearly it’ll catch whatever work you did before stashing, but if it saved stashes specifically in it’s own thing, that would be extra handy.
Reflog is a log of refs. If you don’t make commits then then nothing is added to the ref log.
True, fair. I was about to delete my somewhat dumb question. Yeah I guess if someone’s not saving early & often, this could definitely catch some mistakes.
It’s not dumb, I had the same question. Would’ve been great if the value proposition explained how it was different than using the reflog.
In my experience there’s a lot of Git tools out there that basically exist because people don’t want to read the manual. But seems like Dura is not one of those.