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0 pointsdan009y ago0 comments

I don't think that 'git undo' can tell with certainty which entries in the reflog are from it.

It would be a crude heuristic that's going to break.

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Is there maybe a way to annotate the commit message of HEAD without influencing the reflog?

dan00OP9y ago

You can't change the commit message of a commit without changing the commit, which in most cases is a bad idea, if you don't know pretty much exactly what your doing.

Replacing one heuristic with another won't make this a stable operation.

A lot of people had already the idea to encode relevant information inside of documentation and it was always a bad idea in the long run.

m_mueller9y ago

I get that, I just wondered whether it's technically possible (with supported git operations, not hacking down at FS / byte level).

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0 pointsdan009y ago0 comments

I don't think that 'git undo' can tell with certainty which entries in the reflog are from it.

It would be a crude heuristic that's going to break.

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m_mueller9y ago

Is there maybe a way to annotate the commit message of HEAD without influencing the reflog?

dan00OP9y ago

You can't change the commit message of a commit without changing the commit, which in most cases is a bad idea, if you don't know pretty much exactly what your doing.

Replacing one heuristic with another won't make this a stable operation.

A lot of people had already the idea to encode relevant information inside of documentation and it was always a bad idea in the long run.

m_mueller9y ago

I get that, I just wondered whether it's technically possible (with supported git operations, not hacking down at FS / byte level).

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