From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:32:19 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase -i --update-refs can lead to deletion of branches
Message-ID: <16a8a331-f012-7dae-de1e-f03da95ecb6e@dunelm.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAFzd1+5F4zqQ1CNeY2xaaf0r__JmE4ECiBt5h5OdiJHbaE78VA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Caspar

On 20/10/2022 18:01, herr.kaste wrote:
> 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