Can branches be restored once they're deleted?
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Sid Senthilnathan
08/03/2021, 1:20 PMCan branches be restored once they're deleted?
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Guy Hardonag
08/03/2021, 1:33 PMHey @Sid Senthilnathan, There is no command to restore a branch, however If you do have a way to find the
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Sid Senthilnathan
08/03/2021, 1:42 PMIs there a suggested way of finding the commitIDs of branches that have been deleted?
Sid Senthilnathan
08/03/2021, 1:43 PMIn the UI at least, the only commits that show up are on active branches
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Guy Hardonag
08/03/2021, 1:45 PMYou have no way of finding that commit using the UI because there is no branch/tag pointing to that commit now. let me see if I could think of way to find it
Guy Hardonag
08/03/2021, 2:26 PMI could provide an SQL query to narrow down the potential commits that where the reference to the branch you’r looking for, do you have access to the database instance your lakeFS installation is using?
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Sid Senthilnathan
08/03/2021, 2:30 PMAh I see. I don't need a working example, I was just wondering what the approach would be, and it looks like there isn't an easy way for users of Lakfes to do it (an admin with access to the db would have to query the commits)
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Guy Hardonag
08/03/2021, 2:55 PMExcellent point!
I opened this issue in order to provide an easy way for lakeFS users
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Sid Senthilnathan
08/03/2021, 3:03 PMWonderful, thanks! This would help with our use cases, we'd like to have auditable records of our data
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