From: "David Jeske" <jeske@google.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:40:16 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <willow-jeske-01l5g9o4FEDjCXMB> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806232356340.2979@xanadu.home>
-- Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> I hope you'll feel much safer then.
I moved a branch around and then deleted it, and I don't see any record in the
reflog of where it was, or that it ever was.
Am I missing something about how branches are used? I see some language in "git
tag" about how attempts are made to assure that others can't move around
semi-immutable tags during push, but I don't see any such language about
branches. What prevents someone from accidentally deleting an old branch that
nobody is watching, but is important to the history and then not noticing as gc
silently deletes the old deltas?
I've had need to pull out versions several years old multiple times in my
career, so this is the kind of thing I'm thinking about.
git config --global gc.reflogexpire "10 years"'
git config --global gc.reflogexpireunreachable "10 years"
Makes me feel safer that the data will be in there, but even with the reflog
and access to the repository, I doubt I could FIND the place an old branch was
supposed to be if it was inadvertently deleted in a 2-million line source tree.
Am I just looking in the wrong places?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 4:53 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <jeske@willow=01l5V7waFEDjChmh>
2008-06-24 1:47 ` why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!) David Jeske
2008-06-24 17:11 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 17:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 19:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 20:04 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 21:42 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 22:13 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 22:13 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 22:54 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-24 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 2:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 8:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-25 9:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 15:13 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 22:21 ` Steven Walter
2008-06-24 22:21 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to Steven Walter
2008-06-24 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 9:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-25 9:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 9:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-25 10:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 10:24 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2008-06-25 10:46 ` Anton Gladkov
2008-06-25 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 14:49 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless toldto Craig L. Ching
2008-06-25 15:18 ` Anton Gladkov
2008-06-25 10:41 ` [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to Johannes Sixt
2008-06-25 12:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 13:51 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 19:50 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 20:04 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:22 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-25 21:24 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 21:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 1:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 20:37 ` Steven Walter
2008-06-25 20:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 21:05 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-25 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 5:16 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20080627193325.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
2008-06-27 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-28 0:06 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-28 22:32 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-29 8:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-25 22:44 ` Petr Baudis
2008-06-26 1:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-25 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-26 11:55 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-26 12:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:35 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-06-26 15:55 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-26 17:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-26 12:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-26 12:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25 13:19 ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-26 5:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-26 16:15 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-06-25 5:29 ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-24 20:04 ` why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!) David Jeske
2008-06-25 8:57 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-06-24 18:18 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 1:47 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5V7wbFEDjCX7V@videotron.ca>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5cKsCFEDjC=91MX@videotron.ca>
2008-06-24 2:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-24 3:18 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 8:14 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-24 3:18 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5ciVtFEDjCaD9@videotron.ca>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5e9cgFEDjCh3F@videotron.ca>
2008-06-24 4:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-24 4:40 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 4:40 ` David Jeske [this message]
2008-06-24 5:24 ` Jan Krüger
[not found] ` <1978205964779154253@unknownmsgid>
2008-06-24 5:20 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-06-24 6:35 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 7:24 ` Jeff King
2008-06-24 7:31 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 8:16 ` Jeff King
2008-06-24 8:30 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 9:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 8:30 ` David Jeske
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5PFjPFEDjCfzf-01l5kv6TFEDjCj8S@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>
[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5lTEoFEDjCVta@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>
2008-06-24 10:01 ` Fedor Sergeev
2008-06-24 10:24 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 13:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-24 7:31 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 6:35 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 7:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 8:08 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 11:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 11:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 12:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 11:29 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 12:19 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-06-24 12:35 ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-24 12:46 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-06-24 12:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-24 8:08 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 4:59 Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <e80d075a0806232201o3933d154he2b570986604c30a@mail.gmail.com>
2008-06-24 5:43 ` Teemu Likonen
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2008-06-24 8:35 Björn Steinbrink
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[not found] ` <willow-jeske-01l5oEsvFEDjCjRW>
2008-06-24 10:42 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 10:42 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 15:29 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-24 16:41 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 18:55 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-25 12:20 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-25 17:56 ` Jing Xue
2008-06-24 16:41 ` David Jeske
2008-06-24 12:21 Olivier Galibert
2008-06-25 18:06 Dmitry Potapov
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