Undo changes to your file system is already available (if you run the right
file system).
See https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=undo§ion=1
--
Rickard von Essen
On 21 April 2016 at 22:58, Roman Hargrave <ro...@hargrave.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:42:30 -0500
> charlie <charlie.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Found this post on Y-Combinator
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11540960 , and was happy to see a
> ton
> > of fish users!
> >
> > In one post they mentioned a feature request of a next gen shell, namely
> > 'Undo'.
> >
> > What are some initial thoughts on implementing an undo ( undo a dir
> rename,
> > or a recursive rm ) ? How feasible would it be in the current source of
> > fish ?
> >
> > --
> > Thanks!
> > Charlie
>
> That sounds like it would be the operating systems' responsibility,
> insofar as un-rm.
> The only two ways I can think of enabling such a feature would be staging
> a removal and then
> committing it later (when would that be?) or using a file system with less
> aggressive garbage collection.
>
> WRT directory renames, the shell would need to track file system state
> entirely, unless
> the file system on the host has some sort of name-independent ID.
>
> This sounds like a feature that would fit well in a next-gen operating
> system, P9 style,
> where the shell is tightly integrated with the entire functioning of the
> system.
>
> --
> Roman Hargrave <ro...@hargrave.info>
> http://hargrave.info
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