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Re: [RFC] undo and redo

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CBCarl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Date
Aug 24, 2005, 20:47 UTC
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<20050824204736.GA13194@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0508241634350.23242@iabervon.org>

This is interesting. Can a ref be to a tree rather than a commit? And it still works? I guess it would. I hadn't thought about that.

Will prune preserve any tree mentioned in any file in refs? How does this work exactly?

Cheers, Carl

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:44:48PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Carl Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > This brings up a good point (indirectly).  "git prune" would destroy the
> > undo objects.  I had thought of this but decided to ignore it for the
> > time being.
> 
> If you made undo store the tree under refs somewhere, git prune would
> preserve it.
> 
> 	-Daniel
> *This .sig left intentionally blank*
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