unmake

unmake is a Python library for recording destructive operations in sessions and orchestrating undos later.

It is intentionally split into:

• Storage backend (you choose persistence strategy, e.g., SQLite)
• Operation payload (you define schema and reconstruction)
• Undo orchestration (library provides session + operation ordering)

Install

uv sync

Quickstart

from pathlib import Path

from unmake import HistoryManager, OperationRegistry, SQLiteStorage

manager = HistoryManager(SQLiteStorage("history.db"))

# Record a run
with manager.start_session(script="dangerous_script.py", args=["--force"]) as session:
    Path("a.txt").rename("b.txt")
    session.record_operation("fs.move", {"src": "a.txt", "dst": "b.txt"})

# Register reconstruction logic for undo
class MoveUndo:
    def __init__(self, payload: dict):
        self.src = payload["src"]
        self.dst = payload["dst"]

    def undo(self) -> None:
        Path(self.dst).rename(self.src)

registry = OperationRegistry()
registry.register("fs.move", MoveUndo)

# Undo all operations in reverse order
session_id = manager.list_sessions(limit=1)[0].session_id
manager.undo_session(session_id, registry)

Development workflow

This project is configured for uv, make, and PEP 621 metadata.

make install
make test
make lint
make build

Publish

# Configure token in env first
# export UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN=...
make publish

Bump version

make bump-patch
make bump-minor
make bump-major

Thread Safety

InMemoryStorage

• Not thread-safe by default
• Use external locking for concurrent access:

import threading

from unmake import HistoryManager, InMemoryStorage

storage = InMemoryStorage()
manager = HistoryManager(storage)
lock = threading.Lock()

with lock:
    with manager.start_session(script="safe.py") as session:
        session.record_operation("demo.noop", {"value": 1})

SQLiteStorage

• Thread-safe for standard usage with one connection per method call
• SQLite handles concurrent access with internal locking
• Performance may degrade under very high contention
• Prefer one HistoryManager per thread

Best Practices

• Use SQLiteStorage for multi-threaded applications
• Use InMemoryStorage only with external locking when shared across threads
• Avoid sharing a mutable HistoryManager + InMemoryStorage pair across threads

CLI

Install project dependencies and run:

unmake --db history.db list-sessions
unmake --db history.db show-session <session-id>
unmake --db history.db undo <session-id>