Operations Log
Understanding and using GitButler's operations log to track and undo changes.
GitButler maintains a detailed log of all operations, making it easy to track what happened and undo changes when needed.
Viewing the Operations Log
See all recent GitButler operations:
Operations History ────────────────────────────────────────────────── e16021d339a2 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [OTHER] UpdateDependentBranchName b0f492536a38 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot 6ac172bcd27e 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [INSERT] InsertBlankCommit 92a40ac9b19f 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot 74862403ab1c 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [OTHER] FileChanges f22383e0493c 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot c009517b354c 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [MOVE] MoveCommit f33a43433210 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [MOVE] MoveCommit 785eaf5b8ec5 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot cca556351442 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [UNDO] UndoCommit 020eaf3a565c 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [UNDO] UndoCommit 14568d7f9e9d 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot a90094763410 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [SQUASH] SquashCommit 2b4f05e9c18e 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [SQUASH] SquashCommit 38202db7e609 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot a1a7361b9d81 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [AMEND] AmendCommit 357dd95433c0 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [AMEND] AmendCommit 784d1964e6c4 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot 995bed5ffd5d 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [RESTORE] Restored from snapshot 2e89b508f5fd 2020-10-09 09:06:03 [MOVE_HUNK] MoveHunk
Undoing the last operation
Undo the last operation:
Undoing operation... Reverting to: Restored from snapshot (2020-10-09 09:06:03) ✓ Undo completed successfully! Restored to snapshot: b0f492536a38
Restoring to a previous point
You can easily restore to any point in the operations history by running the but oplog restore command. If it will modify your working directory (maybe it's just changes to the commit history or staging stuff), then it will prompt you if you want to continue. If you don't want that, you can pass -f or --force to make it do it anyhow.
✓ Restore completed successfully! Workspace has been restored to the selected snapshot.
Restorations create a new oplog entry before running, so you can always easily undo it in the same manner.
It can be a bit confusing as to what state it restores to. It will restore to what your project looked like before the operation was run. So for example, if there is a CreateCommit operation and you restore to that SHA, it will put your state back to the moment before the commit happened.
Creating Snapshots
You can also manually create snapshots of moments that you want to be able to revert to at any point, without some other operation needing to automatically save it.
Snapshot created successfully! Snapshot ID: 25820fb040f2 💡 Use 'but oplog restore 25820fb' to restore to this snapshot later.
Now you can copy that SHA and restore to that exact point at any time in the future.
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