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From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git =?utf-8?b?cmVzZXQJLS1oYXJkIg==?=
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Mike Hommey <mh <at> glandium.org> writes:

> Note that reflog only contains references to commit sha1s, so it can't
> track index status.

Yes I realize that.

My point was that the file is entirely gone (except via "git fsck").
I wouldn't expect the reflog to reference it, but I was just mentioning
it for completeness (since it's often help in recovering from types of
lossage).