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Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by dahart »

jhardy54 wrote: post #28
dahart wrote: post #23

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?

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.

Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by mbarneyme »

dilap wrote: post #10

Along similar lines, I've adopted a hyper-frequent commit pattern in git. I do a bunch of meaningless micro-commits as I'm making progress, and then rewrite them all into one or two meanginful commits once I've reached a working state of whatever I was trying to do. I find it's helpful for not losing work / easily backing up if as I'm going along I realize I want to change approach. (For the micro commit I have a git…

Do you have those commands handy by chance? :D

Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by weaksauce »

dahart wrote: post #23

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.

Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by merightnow »

dilap wrote: post #10

Along similar lines, I've adopted a hyper-frequent commit pattern in git. I do a bunch of meaningless micro-commits as I'm making progress, and then rewrite them all into one or two meanginful commits once I've reached a working state of whatever I was trying to do. I find it's helpful for not losing work / easily backing up if as I'm going along I realize I want to change approach. (For the micro commit I have a git…

I've tried that as well. For me it was really difficult as I use the current changes quite a lot, and it makes it a lot more difficult to grasp the work I've done so far without having a meaningful change set.

Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by [deleted] »

dahart wrote: post #23

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?

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Re: Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

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Post by baby »

Honestly I feel a bit weird running this process that's going to watch all my git repos and commit things like that. Also, if my files are saved, then what am I recovering?

I use VSCode and if my computer crashes it'll just recover the unsaved files automatically. That's useful.

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