Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-13T05:18:09Z

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Of course, if you didn't even want to save the old branch, just skip the
> first step. If you have reflogs enabled (and git does that by default in
> any half-way recent version), you can always find it again, even without
> having to do "git fsck --lost-found", at least as long as you don't delete
> that branch, and it hasn't gotten pruned away (kept around for the next 90
> days by default, iirc)

Even if you delete that branch, the "HEAD" reflog will still contain it,
since it is separate from any particular branch reflog.

Nicolas