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Subject: Re: bug related to branches using / in name
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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.