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From: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RTC/PATCH] Add 'update-branch' hook
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:02:02 -0700
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On 4/20/2014 7:23 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> This hook is invoked whenever a branch is updated, either when a branch
> is created or updated with 'git branch', or when it's rebased with 'git
> rebase'. It receives two parameters; the name of the branch, and the
> SHA-1 of the latest commit, additionally, if there was a base commit the
> branch was rebased onto, a third parameter contains it.

And the old branch SHA could be found from in the reflog, correct?
Maybe it is possible to add it as an extra argument?
Or if reflog could be used, a note in the description that would say so.