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From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reverting an uncommitted revert
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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce <at> spearce.org> writes:

> You did say "uncommitted entry causes reflog append", so in Peff's
> original example of "git add a; vi a; git add a", we should be
> creating a reflog entry for that first added state, which is clearly
> not a disagreement.
> 
> FWIW, I think this is a great idea, but lack the time to code it
> myself, otherwise I probably would start hacking on it right now.
> 

I for one am very happy to hear to say this.

Git is generally quite safe, but still, there are holes for the unwary.
I've fallen into those holes (embarrassingly, more than once), and so
any movement towards filling them is quite welcome.