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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> The commit is protected by HEAD's reflog for a while because we update
> HEAD after each pick but it is not permanently safe.

Ah, I forgot about that one.  Thanks for pointing it out.  It does
sound like HEAD's reflog makes it safe enough.