On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:42:03PM +0000, Vipul wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > The usual philosophy in Git is not to bother the user with > > confirmations, but to allow recovery after a mistake. > > > > Well, always prompting for confirmation will be annoying for some people > specially who are mastered in git but, may be very useful feature for > beginner's to avoid them from making mistakes. May be, this feature will > be disabled by default and users have to set some config variable (like > other git-config variable for example help.autocorrect etc) in global > gitconfig file.
Sure, I think there's an argument to be made for confirmations (though I personally would not want them). I was just describing what Git has now. > > Note that there _are_ some commands which are not reversible: mostly > > things that drop content from the working tree. So "git reset --hard" is > > one, and "git clean" is another. There have been discussions and even > > some patches about storing the lost in an "undo log", but nothing has > > been merged. > > > Seems like a good idea. Are they ever gonna merge? If no, why? Or, it > will merge in next feature release. I don't know the latest state. A quick search of the archive showed this as the latest version: https://public-inbox.org/git/20181209104419.12639-1-pclo...@gmail.com/ -Peff
