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Amazing that these tools don't maintain a replayable log of everything they've done. Although git revert is not a destructive operation, so it's surprising tha

by _flux 9mo ago

Amazing that these tools don't maintain a replayable log of everything they've done. Although git revert is not a destructive operation, so it's surprising that it caused any loss of data. Maybe they meant git reset --hard or something like that. Wild if Codec would run that.

MattGaiser 9mo ago
Claude Code has /rewind. Not sure if it is foolproof, but this has been tried.
- JimDabell 9mo ago
  It doesn‘t handle anything Claude uses the shell for, so if it runs `rm -rf .` then rewind won’t help you.
  - xandrius 9mo ago
    You can give it approved commands, so you can prevent that.
- saagarjha 9mo ago
  Huh, I didn't realize this existed. I feel like it's a miss that Claude doesn't use it when you tell it to undo its work.
rabf 9mo ago
I have had codex recover things for me from its history after claude had done a git reset hard, codex is one of the more reliable models/harneses when it comes to performing undo and redo operations in my experience.
defunct34 9mo ago
Claude (can’t remember if was 4.1 Opus, 4.5 Sonnet, or 4.5 Opus) once just started playing with git worktrees and royally f-d up the local repo and lost several hours of work. Since then, I watch it like a hawk.
arcanemachiner 9mo ago
I was looking at the insanity known as Gas Town [0] the other day, and it does use Git to store historical work state in something it calls "beads": https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown?tab=readme-ov-file
- calebkaiser 9mo ago
  If anyone is curious, Beads is an agent memory project from the same developer: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
- PKop 9mo ago
  Bees?
  - brap 9mo ago
    BEADS
theptip 9mo ago
Claude Code has had this feature for a few months now.
CPLX 9mo ago
I found this tool to be the solution I was looking for to address this specific problem: https://contextify.sh https://contextify.sh
stinkbeetle 9mo ago
`git reset --hard` doesn't remove unreferenced commits or rewrite the reflog so I don't think that would do it. Something like `git reset && git gc` would have to be done.
- eru 9mo ago
  And git gc doesn't collect any garbage less than two weeks old by default, either.
- _flux 9mo ago
  But it does remove current uncommitted changes.
  - olvy0 9mo ago
    Except for new files, you'd have to also run git clean -f

by _flux 9mo ago

MattGaiser 9mo ago

Claude Code has /rewind. Not sure if it is foolproof, but this has been tried.

JimDabell 9mo ago
It doesn‘t handle anything Claude uses the shell for, so if it runs `rm -rf .` then rewind won’t help you.
- xandrius 9mo ago
  You can give it approved commands, so you can prevent that.
saagarjha 9mo ago
Huh, I didn't realize this existed. I feel like it's a miss that Claude doesn't use it when you tell it to undo its work.

rabf 9mo ago

I have had codex recover things for me from its history after claude had done a git reset hard, codex is one of the more reliable models/harneses when it comes to performing undo and redo operations in my experience.

defunct34 9mo ago

Claude (can’t remember if was 4.1 Opus, 4.5 Sonnet, or 4.5 Opus) once just started playing with git worktrees and royally f-d up the local repo and lost several hours of work. Since then, I watch it like a hawk.

arcanemachiner 9mo ago

I was looking at the insanity known as Gas Town [0] the other day, and it does use Git to store historical work state in something it calls "beads": https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown?tab=readme-ov-file

calebkaiser 9mo ago
If anyone is curious, Beads is an agent memory project from the same developer: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
PKop 9mo ago
Bees?
- brap 9mo ago
  BEADS

theptip 9mo ago

Claude Code has had this feature for a few months now.

CPLX 9mo ago

I found this tool to be the solution I was looking for to address this specific problem: https://contextify.sh https://contextify.sh

stinkbeetle 9mo ago

`git reset --hard` doesn't remove unreferenced commits or rewrite the reflog so I don't think that would do it. Something like `git reset && git gc` would have to be done.

eru 9mo ago
And git gc doesn't collect any garbage less than two weeks old by default, either.
_flux 9mo ago
But it does remove current uncommitted changes.
- olvy0 9mo ago
  Except for new files, you'd have to also run git clean -f