In darcs, is there a way to recover rolled-back patches?

Question

In my darcs repo, I needed to rollback to look at a prior change. I made a copy of what I thought was the root directory, rolled back, and deleted.

Now I realize that the root was actually one directory up. So the repo I rolled back was actually my only copy.

Is there a way to access old commits in darcs, as there is in git?

Answer 1

I have not found a way to recover rolled-back patches.

I did find some artifacts that I will now recover the recent changes from.

Note to self: when copying a repository, always use darcs clone, never cp -r. And check to verify where the repository root is.

Could also be helpful if darcs had more recovery features.

Answer 2

If you used the darcs rollback command, then the changes are just undone in the working directory. You can just use darcs revert to undo the rollback (i.e. redo the changes).