Hangover

Hangover is time travel (except the future) for your source code directory. Some call it the unlimited undo. It tracks every single file change in a git repository (.hangover). Hangover runs in the background. The file changes get committed to the next parent hangover repository. You can restore any state of your files from the moment on you started hangover.

Usage

Start hangover in the directory from which you want to track all changes.

hangover start

Create a hangover repository in the same directory.

hangover create

All changes within this directory and it's subdirectories go into this repository.

Commands

hangover <command> [options]

Commands:

start  - Tracks all file changes within current directory and it's subdirectories.
stop   - Stops hangover.
status - Shows if hangover is running and which directory is tracked.
create - Creates a hangover repository in current directory.
git    - Tunnels git commands to the hangover repository.
gitk   - Starts gitk for the hangover repository.

Restoring files

Given you want to restore your project directory like it was half an hour ago. Open gitk by running hangover gitk and find the wanted commit. Then checkout the commit by running hangover git checkout <commit_hash>. If you are done run hangover git reset --hard HEAD to get back to your latest files.

Multiple hangover repositories

The hangover repositories are stored in a .hangover directory. You can create multiple repositories in subdirectories to separate projects.

projects
 \_ .hangover
    homepage 
    customer_website
     \_ .hangover
        images
        stylesheets

In this example all changes in the homepage directory got to the .hangover repository directly under projects. All changes in customer_website and it's subdirectories get tracked in it's own repository.