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33.\" $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/undo/undo.1,v 1.5 2008/07/16 21:38:10 dillon Exp $
34.Dd May 31, 2008
35.Dt UNDO 1
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm undo
39.Nd Undo changes made to files on HAMMER filesystems
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl adDiuv
43.Op Fl o Ar outfile
44.Op Fl t Ar transaction-id
45.Op Fl t Ar transaction-id
46.Ar
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility acquires an older version of the specified files and can output
51them to stdout, generate a file with the previous contents, or generate
52a diff to stdout.  A history can also be generated.
53.Pp
54The options are as follows:
55.Bl -tag -width indent
56.It Fl d
57Generate a unified diff from the older version to the current version.
58.It Fl D
59Generate a unified diff from the current version to the older version.
60.It Fl i
61Generate a single line giving the transaction id and converted timestamp
62of the version of the file requested, rather than dumping the contents
63of the file.
64.It Fl a
65Iterate through the file's entire history generating undo files, diffs,
66output, etc.  Note that due to the way file creation is laid down a
67file may appear to be zero-filled just after creation before the data
68is actually synced.  There will be a later version with the synced
69data.  This is a known bug.
70.It Fl u
71Output to a file with name synthesized from the input filename postfixed with ".undo".
72If not specified output is either to stdout or, if a single file argument
73is given, the file specified by the
74.Fl o
75option.
76.It Fl v
77Increase verboseness.
78.It Fl o Ar outfile
79Output to the specified file instead of to stdout.  If iterating through
80a file's entire history
81.Ar outfile
82will be postfixed with an iteration number in the form "outfile.%04d".
83If multiple files are specified
84.Ar outfile
85is used as a template where '%s' is replaced with the last component of
86each file path.  When used with multiple files '%%' must be used in the
87.Ar outfile
88specification to indicate a '%'.  When used with a single file the
89.Ar outfile
90string is used verbatim.
91.It Fl t Ar transaction-id
92Specify how far to go back in time, by giving a HAMMER
93transaction id (0x16chars).  If not specified
94the program will attempt to locate the most recent version of the
95file(s) prior to the current version.
96This option does not apply if
97.Fl a
98is specified.
99.Pp
100A second
101.Fl t
102specification may be given to provide two end-points for a diff, and
103will imply
104.Fl d
105unless overridden.
106.Pp
107Transaction ids always start with "0x".
108A simple index may be
109specified instead of a transaction id where 0 indicates the latest version
110and increasing values indicate older versions.
111.El
112.Sh EXAMPLES
113.Li "undo -d mytextfile"
114.Pp
115.Li "undo -o mytextfile.old mytextfile"
116.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
117Exit status is 0 on success and 1 on error.
118.Sh SEE ALSO
119.Xr hammer 8
120.Sh HISTORY
121The
122.Nm
123utility first appeared in
124.Dx 1.13 .
125.Sh AUTHORS
126.An Matthew Dillon Aq dillon@backplane.com
127.Sh BUGS
128HAMMER only synchronizes information to disk every 30 seconds or so and
129a quick file create / delete is done entirely in system memory and cannot
130be undone.  This can be worked around by running
131.Dq Ar hammer synctid Op filesystem .
132