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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Deprecation/Removal schedule
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:26:14 +0100
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On 2/6/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > * git-lost-found
> >
> >   Although it has served us well, I think it is about to outlive
> >   its usefulness, thanks to the recent "reflog by default"
> >   change.
> >
>
> Nonono. Please no. This has saved me more times than I can even care
> to remember. Especially whenever I'm teaching newcomers how to git.
> I really wouldn't want to not have it there in case its needed and
> some schmuck upgrades git and then loses something vital because he
> forgot to enable the reflog on an old repo.

It's functionality is superseded by "git fsck --unreachable",
see this discussion.