Re: rebase -i --update-refs can lead to deletion of branches
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 3, 2022, 09:32 UTC
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- <16a8a331-f012-7dae-de1e-f03da95ecb6e@dunelm.org.uk>
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Hi Caspar
On 20/10/2022 18:01, herr.kaste wrote:
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> Hi, > > I have the following: > > While doing a > > `$ git rebase --interactive --update-refs X` > > I *removed* the "update-ref" lines from the todo list. The rebase runs > as expected and prints e.g. > > ``` > Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/test. > Updated the following refs with --update-refs: > refs/heads/master > refs/heads/permissive-interactive-rebase > refs/heads/variable-annotations-meta-block > ``` > > After that all refs have been removed/deleted. > > ``` > $ git branch --list > * test > ``` > > Now, I should just have not used `--update-refs` in the first place but anyway > I decide late that I rather don't want to update "master" etc. and it should > probably not delete the local refs. > > Actually, I so love the new feature that I switched it *on* by default, and just > wanted to overwrite the behavior in the todo editor.
Sorry for the slow reply, I'm afraid I still haven't found time to look at this. As far as I can remember deleting the "update-ref" lines should leave the ref unchanged. I've cc'd the author to see if they have any insight into what is going on
Best Wishes
Phillip
> Regards > Caspar Duregger