Comment by masklinn
4 years ago
> 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.