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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git auto-repack is broken...
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:12:14PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> Maybe  FETCH_HEAD should have a reflog too?

That might be nice. However, there is a complication, in that FETCH_HEAD
may contain many sha1s, but each reflog entry only has room for a single
sha1 transition. You could obviously encode it as a series of reflog
entries, but then "git show FETCH_HEAD@{1}" is not very meaningful.

-Peff