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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Simon Holm Thøgersen" <odie@cs.aau.dk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: bug related to branches using / in name
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:57:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7icakvgd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080628041841.GA9451@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:18:41 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> As as long your "equivalent of" means "branch -d"; we need to kill off
> both the ref and its reflogs. And therefore...
> ...
> The one key difference between rewinds and branch deletion is that the
> latter will kill off the reflog, making the history inaccessible. You
> can always still access rewound or rebased work via the reflog.

Hmm, you are right.

I somehow still had a vague distant memory from late 2006 when we did not
have reflogs for remotes/ hierarchy.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-28  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26 19:42 bug related to branches using / in name Simon Holm Thøgersen
2008-06-27  3:02 ` Jeff King
2008-06-27  3:04   ` Jeff King
2008-06-27  8:32     ` Simon Holm Thøgersen
2008-06-27  3:57   ` Jeff King
2008-06-27  3:59     ` [PATCH] fetch: report local storage errors in status table Jeff King
2008-06-27 23:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28  4:21         ` Jeff King
2008-06-27  4:01     ` [PATCH 2/2] fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update Jeff King
2008-06-27 23:31     ` bug related to branches using / in name Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28  4:18       ` Jeff King
2008-06-28  4:57         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-28 11:42         ` Jakub Narebski

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