From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: fixing duplicated history Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:52:57 +0100 Message-ID: <200811122352.57476.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <20081112222346.GA24013@frodo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: me@felipebalbi.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 12 23:54:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0ObQ-0004oC-Rt for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:54:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753336AbYKLWxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:53:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752572AbYKLWxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:53:05 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.164]:36328 "EHLO pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752160AbYKLWxE (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:53:04 -0500 Received: from sleipner.localnet (213.67.100.250) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.3.129) id 4873CA9501F74BF2; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:52:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-7-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20081112222346.GA24013@frodo> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: onsdag 12 november 2008 23:23:51 skrev Felipe Balbi: > Hi, > > I have a git tree which history is completely messed up with duplicated > entries. By reading git man pages I saw that it might be possible to > delete those duplicated entries with git reflog delete, am I reading it > right ? No. The reflog is not the history, except your very local log of what the heads pointed to. You do not see the reflog unless you ask for it, and nobody else can see it (i.e. *your* reflog). What looks like duplicate entries may commit that have been cherry picked into one or more branches that have been merged thereafter. If you look carefully they have different id's. -- robin