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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce git-mirror, a tool for exactly mirroring another repository.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ei8s19$e04$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vac3covlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:
>  
>> BTW, I was thinking about the possibility to save removed refs under,
>> e.g., refs/old/`date -I`/; maybe even non-fast-forward refs could be
>> saved there - this will ensure that no object will ever disappear from
>> the mirror, no matter what is done on the master side.  Obviously, in
>> this case remote refs like refs/old/* should be filtered.
> 
> I do not think that belongs to git-mirror.  It might be better to
> have that option in update-ref machinery so that you would even
> be protected from a `git branch -d` ran by mistake.

Perhaps just don't remove log when branch is deleted. I tend for example
to be careful when reordering commits on a branch, and use git branch -f
instead of deleting and recreating branch to not lose reflog.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25  4:46 [PATCH] Introduce git-mirror, a tool for exactly mirroring another repository Shawn Pearce
2006-09-26  4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-26 21:57   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-10-31 14:42 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-10-31 14:55   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-01  0:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-01  1:08     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-11-01 12:18       ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-11-01 12:23         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-01 16:15         ` Junio C Hamano

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