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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: git auto-repack is broken...
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On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Linus's scenario of fetching a lot of stuff that never actually makes
> it into the reflogs is still a valid problem.  I'm not sure that
> people who don't know what they are doing are going to run into this
> problem though.  Since he fetches a lot of stuff without ever checking
> it out or creating a branch from it, potentially many objects become
> unreferenced every time FETCH_HEAD changes.

Maybe  FETCH_HEAD should have a reflog too?


Nicolas