git-annex-undo(1)

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✨ git-annex-undo(1) ✨

okay bestie, this one's from the General Commands Manual, and it's the git-annex-undo page — yes, the deprecated one 💀 but we're still gonna read it together, no skipping, iykyk.

💖 NAME 💖

git-annex-undo — undo the last change to a file or directory (deprecated!!)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

git annex  [filename|directory] ...

(yes there are two spaces after annex, that's the original, we don't touch it 🫶)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe:

  • when you pass it a filename, it undoes the last change that was made to that file.
  • when you pass it a directory, it undoes the last change that was made to the contents of that directory.

and here's the iconic part: running undo a second time will undo the undo, putting the working tree right back to the same state it had before 🌈. to support undoing an undo of staged changes, any staged changes are first committed by the undo command — like, it commits them first, that's just how it do.

⚠️ heads up bestie: this does not undo get/drop of a file's content. it only operates on the file tree committed to git. so don't come for it about your content, it's a file-tree girlie 💅

and ngl, the big one: this command is deprecated 😭 — the same things can be done in other ways using usual git commands. so like, it still works, but it's giving retired main character energy.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --json — enable JSON output. it's meant to be parsed by programs that use git-annex, so every single line of output is a JSON object ✨.
  • --json-error-messages — messages that would normally be output to standard error get included in the JSON instead 🫶.

also, the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used too, so go off with those 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — periodt 💜

so yeah, that's the whole page, and it's from the git-annex-undo(1) manual (General Commands Manual, git-annex-undo(1)), which is literally the same name as the page itself — cute little full-circle moment 🎀 slay, go undo something (or don't, it's deprecated bestie) 🦋💖

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