From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Deleting remote branches with git-branch and reflog questions Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:29:38 +0000 Message-ID: <200701231529.40362.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200701231259.27719.andyparkins@gmail.com> <200701231432.24225.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 23 16:29:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9Nao-0005ns-H4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:29:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751996AbXAWP3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:29:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751997AbXAWP3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:29:47 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:58388 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996AbXAWP3r (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:29:47 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i12so961330wra for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:29:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=kcpz6qK+w8hr9MdhceTOBCzBBrFDodJ3u/Vso9dQ3Ql2VER3Y523C/Wp4kbSgLANZ/iNGq3WqXAbxtBQR6Uo5BwiRNjWlI8lyAAXbGAcrUl6cta6RR3WnlP7jiQA2uetV6PdtiJQNMssAMYVdeeDA6jdmbui93P5mG3FQB6WLQw= Received: by 10.49.65.15 with SMTP id s15mr1188128nfk.1169566185287; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:29:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m15sm2917468nfc.2007.01.23.07.29.43; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:29:44 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 2007 January 23 14:59, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > You mean, kind of like a waste bin? Where you delete stuff, but come back > and whine that you did not meant to delete it after all? No, no; I'm whining that the reflog was deleted, not the branch. I think that "ref deleted" is just as valid for logging as anything else, and deleting the log makes it impossible to view that operation. Given how powerful the reflog is; it doesn't seem unreasonable to want to be able to do $ git branch -D some-branch $ git show some-branch@{2 days ago} Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com