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33.Dd September 27, 2015
34.Dt UNDO 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm undo
38.Nd Undo changes made to files on HAMMER filesystems
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl adDiuv
42.Op Fl o Ar outfile
43.Op Fl t Ar transaction-id
44.Op Fl t Ar transaction-id
45.Ar
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility acquires an older version of the specified files and can output
50them to stdout, generate a file with the previous contents, or generate
51a diff to stdout.  A history can also be generated.
52.Pp
53The options are as follows:
54.Bl -tag -width indent
55.It Fl d
56Generate a unified diff from the older version to the current version.
57.It Fl D
58Generate a unified diff from the current version to the older version.
59.It Fl i
60Generate a single line giving the transaction id and converted timestamp
61of the version of the file requested, rather than dumping the contents
62of the file.
63.It Fl a
64Iterate through the file's entire history generating undo files, diffs,
65output, etc.  Note that due to the way file creation is laid down a
66file may appear to be zero-filled just after creation before the data
67is actually synced.  There will be a later version with the synced
68data.  This is a known bug.
69.It Fl u
70Output to a file with name synthesized from the input filename postfixed with ".undo".
71If not specified output is either to stdout or, if a single file argument
72is given, the file specified by the
73.Fl o
74option.
75.It Fl v
76Increase verboseness.
77.It Fl o Ar outfile
78Output to the specified file instead of to stdout.  If iterating through
79a file's entire history
80.Ar outfile
81will be postfixed with an iteration number in the form "outfile.%04d".
82If multiple files are specified
83.Ar outfile
84is used as a template where '%s' is replaced with the last component of
85each file path.  When used with multiple files '%%' must be used in the
86.Ar outfile
87specification to indicate a '%'.  When used with a single file the
88.Ar outfile
89string is used verbatim.
90.It Fl t Ar transaction-id
91Specify how far to go back in time, by giving a hexadecimal HAMMER
92transaction id which must start with "0x".  If not specified
93the program will attempt to locate the most recent version of the
94file(s) prior to the current version.
95This option does not apply if
96.Fl a
97is specified.
98.Pp
99A second
100.Fl t
101specification may be given to provide two end-points for a diff, and
102will imply
103.Fl d
104unless overridden.
105.Pp
106Transaction ids always start with "0x".
107A simple index may be
108specified instead of a transaction id where 0 indicates the latest version
109and increasing values indicate older versions.
110.El
111.Sh EXIT STATUS
112.Ex -std
113.Sh EXAMPLES
114.Li "undo -d mytextfile"
115.Pp
116.Li "undo -o mytextfile.old mytextfile"
117.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
118.Bl -diag
119.It "Warning: fake transaction id path@@0x..."
120While locating past versions of the file,
121.Nm
122came across a fake transaction id, which are automatically generated by
123.Xr hammer 5
124in case the file's directory entry and inode got bisected in the past.
125.El
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr hammer 8
128.Sh HISTORY
129The
130.Nm
131utility first appeared in
132.Dx 1.13 .
133.Sh AUTHORS
134.An Matthew Dillon Aq Mt dillon@backplane.com
135.Sh BUGS
136HAMMER only synchronizes information to disk every 30 seconds or so and
137a quick file create / delete is done entirely in system memory and cannot
138be undone.  This can be worked around by running
139.Dq Nm hammer Cm synctid Ar filesystem .
140