bd restore

Generated from bd help --doc restore

bd restore

Restore the pre-compaction content of a compacted issue.

When an issue is compacted, its description/design/notes/acceptance criteria are summarized and the originals are archived to a compaction snapshot. This command recovers that original content.

By default it is read-only: it displays the archived content without modifying the database. Pass --apply to write the original content back into the issue and step its compaction level back down.

If no archived snapshot exists (e.g. the issue was compacted by an older bd before snapshot archiving), restore falls back to a best-effort reconstruction from Dolt version history, which can only be displayed, not applied.

bd restore <issue-id> [flags]

Flags:

      --apply   Write the restored content back into the issue (default: display only)
      --json    Output restore results in JSON format