ugit

Undo your last oopsie 🙈️ in git

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Usage

Make sure your current directory is a git repository

Linux/Mac

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/app bhupeshimself/ugit

Set an alias for easy access

Shell alias

alias ugit="docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/app bhupeshimself/ugit"

Git alias

git config --global alias.undo '!docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/app bhupeshimself/ugit'

Common Issues

If you come across the error Ummm, you are not inside a Git repo 😟 while executing the container, try sharing the file/directory permissions like this:

docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $PWD:/app bhupeshimself/ugit

Windows

Make sure you have switched to Linux containers on docker desktop⁠.

# powershell
docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/app bhupeshimself/ugit
# cmd
docker run --rm -it -v %cd%:/app bhupeshimself/ugit

Why use ugit?

• You accidentally ran agit command you wish to 'undo'.
• You want to save time by not searching for how to undo ...
• Your focus is on problems at hand and not on Git (avoid context switching)

News

Community

• Alexander Alemayhu made a YouTube tutorial on Undoing Your Last Git Commit with Ugit⁠

Please read ⚠️

Git comes with a garbage collector (in case you didn't know⁠) therefore undoing some commands will become impossible if the entries are deleted from the reflog. One way to prevent this is to increase default time limits before the reflog entries expire.

Add these configurations in your global .gitconfig file:

[gc]
    # default 90 days
    reflogExpire = 200

Used to set how long records in a branch's reflog should be preserved.

[gc]
    # default 30 days
    reflogExpireUnreachable = 90

Used to set how long inaccessible reflog records should be preserved.

Not satisfied?

You can read my in-process guide on How to undo anything in Git⁠. You can also find this guide using ugit --guide